Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every sailor's heart. By the tactics of 100 years ago they meant, "Splice the Main-Brace," i.e., repair the stays holding up the middle of a frigate's three masts. By venerable naval usage "Splice the Main-Brace" means to issue an extra round of navy rum to every man jack aboard ship. Again the fleet...
Effect of the legislation would have been to bar from Ohio whiskeys distilled in such big producing States as Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania; brandies from California and New York; rum from Massachusetts. Upon hearing English-educated Mr. Morgan's distasteful forecast, Ohio's legislators killed the measure...
...Royal Navy strengthened the grog* served to tars last week from "three-water-rum" to "two-water-rum"-a measure to stimulate recruiting at once contrasted with the Army's recent issuance of extra milk (TIME, March...
...18th Century famed British Admiral Edward Vernon made it his whim to wear a cloak of heavy French grosgrain silk. The Admiral's tars called him "Old Grogram," an English corruption of grosgrain current for a century before. As a temperance measure Old Grogram introduced the rule that rum must never be served straight to enlisted men but mixed with water and this mixture was soon being called "Grogram . . . Grog . . . grog...
...authorities were wary of the students' running up charge accounts, as shown by the decree that "no Undergraduate shall go or send to any Inn-Keeper or Retailer within three miles of ye College for any strong Beer, Brandy, Rum, Wine, or other spirituous Liquors, without paying immediately for ye same...