Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point we made the edge of the dance floor, only to be thrust aside by Neil Plantefaber digging his way into the ranks toward a rum coke...
...Lepsio, returning from the town, met Sheldon Lewis on the bridge. Says Sheldon, "I had a dozen Virginia reels out at a barndance this evening." Replied trigger fast Sam, "That's nothing. I had rum cokes all evening at the Merry-go-round...
...first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...
...news promptly brought out supplies of whiskey which had been hoarded in stores across the nation. And many a retailer whose shelves are loaded with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...
...upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie Nation made a whirlwind campaign to woo the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating...