Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which was mixt with water and sugar. They drank it among them but he saw no excess." After this addition was gone, still another pint was secured, making the total for the three boys in the hours between noon and three...
Suitable Suitor. For the plump hand of the House of Bacardi there have been many suitors in the past six months. At one time or another nearly every U. S. liquorman has pleaded for the exclusive right to market Cuba's rum after Repeal (TIME, Oct. 9). The better to hear the suits, aging Henri Schueg, son-in-law of the founding Facundo Bacardi and present head of the House, journeyed to Manhattan last month. Last week shrewd old Henri Schueg announced that he had at last found a suitable suitor-the importing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Most...
Willoughby Sharp makes use of notoriety given to the of kidnaping, rum running, blackmailing and weaves it his central theme. He creates difficulties and then logically and gracefully each in its order, leaving the alternately perturbed...
...novelist. It is an illustration not only of his dramatic restraint, but of his intellectual honesty and of his deep understanding as well. For, to anyone who knows New England, Eph and Sue are honest 'pictures, they embody all the characteristics and habits, all the simplicity, all the uncouth, rum-drinking, ruddy cheeked vigor which is the badge of your New England fisherman...
More Bacardi seeped into the U. S. during Prohibition than before-40,000 cases annually. An enormously greater quantity of domestic rum was bootlegged under faked Bacardi labels and thus the trade name's value has soared. Last week it reported that President Henri Schueg, elderly son-in-law of the founding Facundo who holds the balance of power in the factional Bacardi family, was about to journey to Manhattan to settle once & for all who was to cash in on the 13 years of free advertising...