Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money should be spent, time should be wasted, energies exhausted, tempers lost, vacations granted, plan puddings made, dinner coats pressed, wreaths hung, the Vagabond is the quite sure. But one cannot analyze Christmas without becoming philosophical, and philosophy at such a season is like tea in rum. Nor must one be fulsomely benevolent. There are already too many Tiny Tims, too many Edgar Guests, too many three penny printed hosannahs. What then...
...Whether French politics be more injurious than New England rum...
...have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain for a long sea trip but we made one." Others aboard the floating grandstand: Reeve Schley...
...CRIMSON of November 19, there would be no need for an organization such as the Crusaders. His point is well taken when he mentions the 32 breweries supporting the Association against the Prohibition Amendment in 1928, but he seems to overlook the fact that prohibition is supported by rum-runners, bootleggers, gangsters, whose "success" in life depends upon the Eighteenth Amendment, as well as by those who honestly believe that prohibition is the right thing...
...world must drink, and it is becoming apparent that it must, the Vagabond would have them drink a rarer vintage than that washed up on Portsmouth beach, the solitary epitaph of a rum runner. Mead was the drink of the gods upon Olympus long years ago; if it is good enough for them it is good enough for Harvard. In the far off days when Romans were like brothers Mead ran like water. Pliny has passed on to us the doubtful praise that "it had all the bad qualities of wine and none of the good"; but the Vagabond...