Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite published reports, this was not the first International Rum Runners & Bootleggers' Convention. But it was one of the most important and it was the first attended by the Press. Montreal trains, boats from New York and Boston, brought the delegates, most of whom seemed to be named Smith and called "Looey." Few of the I. R. R. & B. would talk. Newshawks amused themselves for a while by having...
...delegate did take pity on the Press. He explained that this was a meeting of the "Providers" (captains and owners of rum ships) and the "Recipients" (runners who slip the cargoes over the 12-mile limit and distribute it in the U. S.) Rum ships, he added, never clear for the U. S. from Halifax itself. To spare the feelings of Canadian big-port authorities members of the I. R. R. & B. use the smaller Canadian ports of Liverpool, Shelburne, Meteghan, Yarmouth (all in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia...
...formula, as printed in postcard form for handy mailing from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking...
Christmas, vacation, snow, carols, rum, and New Years have come and gone their way, alone and unattended. A season has died in the night...
...execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the street 200 yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down as a church bell struck seven...