Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murray Hill's crinoline-&-lavender atmosphere was the expression of one man: Benjamin L. M. Bates. Son of a Manhattan hotel owner, Ben Bates evolved his philosophy of an elegant life when, as a boy, he watched his father's daily ritual in preparing punch from Medford Rum.* He started out at the Murray Hill as assistant night clerk, soon rose to manager. He saved his money, increased it by speculation. When the hotel went on the auction block, he held a mortgage on all the furnishings, became the natural and successful bidder. Ben Bates had one firm...
...Bates saved all that remained of his father's rum, kept it under lock & key. Until his own death, whenever he visited Hartford, Conn., where his father was buried, he took along a phial of the rum, ceremoniously poured it as a libation on his father's grave...
Privation in the Northwest. In Oregon, liquor rationing reduced every citizen's weekly consumption to a pint of gin, two quarts of whiskey and one and one-fifth gallons of rum or brandy...
...limped towards shore. Off Cape Esperance it suddenly went down at the stern. Said the New Zealand skipper: "There she rested on a reef, and she's still there with 30 or 40 feet of her bow in the air pointed towards Tokyo. I ordered the rum broken out for each...
...hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with axes and he suspects the cargo...