Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tactics of a Mr. Romaine, the man in the service of the W.C.T.U., whose part is taken by E. H. Angert '35. W. B. Lovejoy '34, playing the part of Sample Swichell, the Yankee comic, relieves the tension in the play with his sharp quips at Simon Slade, the rum seller, played by W. W. Beardsley...
...liberalized regulations for alcoholic beverages provide for whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, alcohol and other distilled drinks. They also provide for wines fermented from grapes and berries, which are stronger in alcohol than 3.2%, and for drinkable drugstore elixirs, spirits and tinctures...
Died. Jose Bacardi, 34, one of three brothers who control the manufacture of Bacardi rum; of pneumonia; in Mexico City, Mexico. Ten years ago Senor Bacardi's wife, then 19, sued him for divorce charging that he drank Bacardi morning, noon, night...
From Jamaica and Cuba comes sweet, potent rum to London. It is stored in the West India Docks' "Rum Quay" warehouses north of the Isle of Dogs, where the Thames River winds through the flat slums of East London. One night last week a small fire started in a timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted...
Finally the firemen admitted the rum ($45,000,000 worth) would have to burn itself out. The fire had gotten into the big vats below quay level, turned them into huge alcohol lamps. Watching goggle-eyed, several Londoners fell into the river...