Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin as their oracle and with the aid of Demon Rum keep him in their hotel penning his sweet lines and doping the races. After a hectic few days of this the mild Erwin becomes a man in his own right and, considerably enriched, returns to take his place as wearer of the pants in his own home...
Things still look bad, both as regards the hanging and the race, until someone has the happy idea of throwing rum-jugs into the furnace, Columbia of fire pour from the stacks and the ship leaps ahead like a wild thing. (Shot nephew mounting scaffold.) Shot of entire personnel of the Marie Lou hurling rum-jugs. One wonders who's steering the boat.) Whistles blowing, bands playing, people cheering...
Moldy Chestnuts Sirs: In TIME, July 15, relative to the political tempest in a teapot in the Virgin Islands, you say: ''Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions...
...HENRY Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I., U. S. TIME erred. In 1919 (year before Prohibition), Virgin Islands' exports amounted to some $1,500,000, less than $10,000 of which was in rum. Following year only $150 worth of rum left the Islands. Latest reports show Virgin Islands' principal exports to be: sugar 54%, cattle 22%, bay rum & oil 14%, molasses, horses, mules, hides, vegetables, fruits, fish, tobacco, turtle shell, fence posts...
Happy as the great review closed, George V, as Lord High Admiral of England, ordered "Splice the main brace!" This used to mean that every man aboard got a ration of rum nicely calculated to make him feel elated without getting him too drunk to be of further use- ⅛pint. Today those who do not wish to become elated can ask for a limeade, never mentioned by the King without picturesque additions...