Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rum & Flavor. In the Philip Morris factory in Richmond, where long lines of colored girls chant improvised songs all day long in the humid redolence of tobacco, Philip Morris cigarets are manufactured by virtually the standard process used by all the big popular brands-Turkish and U. S. tobaccos are mixed, sprayed with a special flavoring formula which gives each brand its own particular taste. Since taste is a big selling point, each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent...
...sales totting up to the biggest total of any month in his company's history, President Chalkley went home last week to his one-acre place at Port Washington, Long Island, to enjoy a weekend's sailing in his 23-foot sloop, still trusting in partly the rum, partly the dwarf but mostly the price-the formula which so far has proved all that Philip Morris could desire...
Just why king-snakes and Boston debs seemed incompatible could not be explained by Gilbert last night, but the smile on his face as he splashed round in a rum-and coca-cola seemed to show that he didn't give a damn...
Harvard, long the seat of COMMUNIST teaching, has its finger in this new pie. It allegedly humorous magazine has devised an insidious process of MANUFACTURING Orientals by feeding them bum rum. Experimenting on themselves, the periodical's staff are now in Stillman, YELLOW AS BANANAS...
...doubt you have heard of me and my great work in the cause of temperance. For several years I have been travelling about the country on the lecture platform. You may even be familiar with some of my better known talks, such as "Down With Drink," "Rum and Rebellion," and "Taking the B Out of Booze...