Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrolman Melvin saw a yacht's searchlight flashing off the Steel Pier. Thinking it was a rumrunner, he made no effort to interfere. After a decent interval he approached the pier, was told by the night watchman that no rum had landed but that five Cubans in the last stages of seasickness had staggered ashore. Patrolman Melvin went into action, trailed the party to the Hotel Wiltshire. There he found Rosendo Collazo, onetime Cuban Senator and colonel; Aurelio Collazo, his son, a lawyer; Aurelio Alvarez, discontented sugar planter; Rafael Idurralde, another lawyer; Captain Luis H. Rodiguez, onetime political prisoner...
...Washington the State Department filed a complaint with the Canadian Government against rum-runners from Nova Scotia who had disabled a pursuing Coast Guard crew off Nantucket last month by putting chemicals into their motors, spraying a noxious smoke screen from the exhaust. Rum chasers hereafter will carry gas masks...
...Halifax, N. S. the rum-running Josephine K., whose captain was killed by U. S. gunfire last winter off New York, arrived with her bow and stern staved in and a yarn of deliberately ramming a U. S. Coast Guard vessel in revenge...
...take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of ice. Spittle will freeze before reaching the ground. . . . Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops it, sparks fly as if from flint. . . . Even rum would freeze in my traveling flask. Only pure alcohol withstood the cold...
...Nearly all the colonists drank strong liquor. . . . Here is a sad story: The New England colonists made most of the rum. They took it to Africa and bought Negroes with it, they took the Negroes to the West Indies and exchanged them for molasses to make more rum to buy more negroes to get more molasses to make more rum. There was no end to this cycle...