Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circuit attorney. Last fall Tom Hennings eased into the Navy, went on active duty as a lieutenant commander. He was assigned to Puerto Rico as naval aide to crisp-curled Rexford Guy Tugwell, the original brain-truster, who is now Governor of that jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden island "paradise...
Fortnight ago, Tom Hennings was suddenly transferred to Pearl Harbor, some 6,000 miles away. Over the rum swizzles in San Juan's bars went rummy gossip. In Washington, testy Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, who arranged the transfer, said: "A man has as much right to select his own naval aide as he does to select his own wife." Governor Tugwell, in Washington also last week...
...find the next years at College a time of great shortage, a survey of stores around the Square reveals. The liquor situation in particular is becoming acute, with existing stocks of gin almost exhausted while the government plans to take over distilleries for war purposes. Furthermore, the manufacture of rum has been seriously curtailed, leaving whiskey and been the only liquor staples whose sale will remain unaffected...
...story of a philanthropic spinster attempting to educate Welsh miners and her discovery of a man of great talent among them hardly makes a sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation, obviously not very exciting, is not helped by numerous inconsistencies in the writing. Parts of it are excellent, particularly...
...falls, and his comebacks, were due less to lumber than to his passion for boats. By the time he crashed hardest (in 1931) he was known in New Orleans for designing speedboats that answered a rum runner's prayer-and for designing other speedboats that the Feds used to chase them...