Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves of all descriptions, some attached to frying pans. Swinging hilarity and frenzy, all having a glorious time, with rum and without. All to the rhythm you aptly classify as 'hot.' These boys can make it so hot it melts and sears into one's memory...
...Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John), bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000, presented a similar economic problem. Their 95% Negro population had been squeezed off the farming land. Their rum trade had been blighted by Prohibition. Their sugar plantations and factories were close to collapse. Last month following a six-month investigation by Chief Herbert Brown of the Bureau of Efficiency, President Hoover transferred the Islands' administration from the Navy to the Interior Department. To set up a new civil government and pull the Virgin Islanders out of their economic hole President Hoover appointed...
There is also the roaring command "Everybody to the bar! The drinks are on the house!" Immensely funny are the exaggerated writhings of William Farnum's conscience as the battle for his soul goes on between Little Mary and the Demon Rum. Funny is the frail barroom, which trembles as if it were about to go to pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used...
...notorious gangster. Hyman ("Hymie") Martin, who tallied with the description except that he stands over 6 ft. Martin admitted he had been in Cleveland on the evening of the murder. But he loudly protested that he knew nothing of the "bumping-off," crying: "I'm a gentleman, a rum-runner...
...piece is called Merry Mount and suggests the story of Thomas Morton, English adventurer who antagonized the Puritans by setting up a maypole and selling rum and arms to the Indians in what is now Quincy, Mass., lately famed for permitting Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude to be played there when Boston prohibited...