Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perfumed Spirits and Bay Rum...
...moral passion but no religious convictions, Hayes believed in temperance, served no liquor at the White House. Once visiting diplomats thought he had slipped when they tasted a punch and detected the flavor of rum; but the Presi dent had fooled them, it was only the flavor they tasted. Hayes would have liked a second term, but believed one was enough, stuck to his conviction. His party politicians were glad of his decision, hoped their next man would not prove so uncompromising against the spoils system. Back in Ohio, Hayes enlarged his house, saw his friends, read many a book...
...clock in the court room of Langdell Hall at the Law School there will be an argument of a claim brought by the Dominion of Canada against the United States based on the sinking of the "I'm Alone". The "I'm Alone" is famous as being the rum runner chased by a United States patrol beat which took up the chase inside the international limit and continued it outside into the high seas...
...products. The other was the Lyons Industrial Fair, with 1,500 exhibitors from 24 countries. Typical of the various groups of exhibits was that of the provision trade whose offerings included wines from France, preserves and pastes from Italy, pork from Czechoslovakia, cacao from Holland, coffee from Brazil, rum from the West Indies...
...phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony of drink upon drink. The debutante, overshadowed by the impersonal magnitude of her hospitality, loses the spontaneity that might have kept the stage from the bottle and thus broken...