Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michaux disciples must avoid "rum, rowdy women, slot machines and big talk." But excitement is provided them at the Elder's services. "That was a great mass meeting we had this morning, pilgrims," says the Elder when his congregation has really cut loose. "You can always tell when the Holy Ghost and fire come down. I got burnt this morning myself...
Even when the ships sailed regularly to Puerto Rico, bringing in the rice, beans and salt cod (staples of the natives' diets) and taking away the sugar, rum, tobacco and coffee (cash crops that pay the natives' paltry wages), there was hunger and destitution on this lush, mountainous, crowded island-stepchild of the U.S. economy. Now that German subs lurk in the Caribbean and ships are needed elsewhere for war, famine might cease to be a threat, become a grim reality...
...opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their palms with...
Then three centuries of indifferent Harvard men were tossed about in their graves as a mammoth football rally showed the "Hanover hoodlumns" that college spirit can come without "a barrel of New England rum...
...cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade, and if you do not drink raw rum and boiling punch as strong as sulfur he will insult...