Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sergeant drinks your rum, never mind...
Chief pillar of the Golden Age was wealth, not piety, and chief source of this wealth the lucrative trade-triangle-West Indian molasses, Newport rum, African slaves. Result: one of the largest groups of private mansions in New England. Through these fine houses from the Revolution to the present have passed nearly all the famed social arbiters and artists of U. S. history. Rev. Thomas Skinner sat for Telegraph Inventor-Painter Samuel F. B. Morse; National Academy President Daniel Huntington painted Bishop Henry C. Potter; Alexander James did Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who inaugurated modern naval training; George Peter Alexander...
Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, M.P. for Plymouth, has never allowed her Conservative Party affiliations to interfere with her penchant for reform. One of her pet hates is Demon Rum; another is flogging, a practice still legal in the British Navy and British prisons. Unruly sailors are rarely flogged now, but stern judges sometimes order the lash as punishment for particularly brutal civil crimes...
This candid author was born in England 59 years ago, ran off to the Boer War in 1899, almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...
...chancel steps of Manhattan's historic St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (where Stuyvesant is buried), reviewed the story of "his" life. "When I came to Nieuw Amsterdam," he said, "it was a filthy little village of 700 inhabitants, crowded into scarcely 100 flimsy shacks. . . . The rum shops were better attended than the churches...