Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three older children, Jenny, Dottie and Joel, whose actions have importance in the unfolding of the story, are followed through critical phases of their lives. Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back...
...Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
Many an old New England fortune founded on that respectable word, "rum," has been very nearly dissipated by that reprehensible word, "utilities." Those remaining "genteel poverty" holders of utility stocks should be heartened by the acquittal yesterday of Sam Insull, hounded by a vengeful government in every far corner of the world, only to be hailed "not guilty" by the courts. This verdict following on the heels of the recent Tennessee pronouncements may mark the nadir of utility disrepute. Perhaps the majority of utility stocks have at last passed into nobler and purer hands who will at some later time...
Harvard, although it lost the football game, won, after a valiant struggle, the Championship of the Demon Rum. Nevertheless, one must admit West Point put up an amazingly good fight, considering the fact that two of its heartiest sections were, by orders from G.H.Q. completely and utterly dry. All the cadets are subject to a most rigorously enforced prohibition against intoxicating beverages, and so West Point's drinking was confined to the cadets' supporters, friends, and old grads. The Army's future officers may not be supposed to touch the stuff, but their allies practically make up for their teetotalism...
...eight years ago as the overt expression of collegiate rejoicing at a long awaited victory over a traditionally triumphant Harvard, the assault has at long sad last become a trite ritual. Last week the H.A.A. News dismissed the destruction of the posts as a manifestation of that old demon rum, and pointed with pride to the fact that very few of either student body engaged in the fray...