Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that the U. S. would permit unlimited imports of "American type" liquors until Feb. 9, 163 ships on Rum Row off the Atlantic Coast scurried for Bermuda, the Bahamas, Honduras to get clearance papers for the U. S. on their 2,000,000 gallons of whiskey and thus land their cargoes legally...
...Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction. It contains 548 eggs, 75 Ib. of sugar, 50 Ib. of butter, 60 Ib. of flour, 75 Ib. of assorted fruit, 1 quart of vanilla, 3 quarts of rum and rose water. It cost $79 including $15 for labor, and occupied five men for 24 hours...
Last week the owners of the rum-sow propositioned the President of the U. S. in such a way as to make the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy active and whacking...
...Baker, doorkeeper lost "1 new beaver Hatt", valued at 1 pound 16 shillings; "1 new Wigg," 2 pounds 8 shillings; and one pair of black shoe buckles. Stephen Hall, a student numbered among his losses a bed and bedding, food, kitchen utensils, 2 cod lines, and a quart of rum which he valued at 1 shilling sixpence. Other itemized lists show that the students kept house for themselves to a large degree...
Boston maintained the New England rum tradition by popularizing Spanish Main ($3 a pint) and New England ($2.75). Old James E. Pepper bourbon cost $3.25 a pint. A Great Western champagne sold for $3.50 a quart...