Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display posters on the bulletin boards of the Houses and University buildings advertising their competitions and their wares. In the past these posters have dealt with some sort of business, but last week there blossomed out a set of posters advertising a social function for Freshmen candidates: a rum punch. Despite the fact that rum punches are one of the choicest methods of spending a few hours, the public attempt to lure Freshmen to extra-curricular activities by such means is likely to be deceptive to the Freshman and certainly does not shed any glory on the College...
...Australia even wilder words are flung), and on the side George McCullagh has done something regarded as bravura even by the Canadian press by deciding to devote huge editorial space in the Globe and Mail to his past adventures with strong drink and present successes in vanquishing Demon Rum...
...away, answered by wholesale arrests. At dawn a few days later James Smith and 19 Black Boys leaped from behind an embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly...
...great ambition is to be an artist and paint pictures of Indians. But the real hero is Major Robert Rogers of Rogers' Rangers. Langdon was a bright lad and did so well at school that his family scraped together enough money to send him to Harvard College. A rum party in his room brought his brief career there to a close; his disappointed father put him to work on his grandfather's farm near Portsmouth. Once more drink and an unguarded tongue fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst...
...single child is safe." Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W. C. T. U. president for New York and wife of the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the U. S. last year, censured the U. S. Government for having "invested $2,500,000 of taxpayers' money in rum distilling in the Virgin Islands. This is the first instance in history that our Government has gone into the business of manufacturing liquor. This Government-manufactured rum has been shipped recently to the United States for sale." A message to the convention from President Roosevelt omitted all mention of alcohol...