Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...
...still undenied by its principal-Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones. Lender Jones was reported present at a discussion of an alleged British Lend-Lease requisition for glasses of all kinds-sherry, port, brandy glasses. The order supposedly ended with a request for several drums of rum. Doubtless not bearing in mind Dunkirk, Libya, Crete and the R.A.F. every night over the Channel, Jones is supposed to have instantly suggested: "Give them the rum. Maybe they'll fight...
Senator George is no rum-&-ruin imperialist. He knows that French Martinique is a dirty, uneconomic hole. That it is a place of open sewers and shoeless feet. That its desperate romantic crumbs-Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...
...inimitable way with Brazil's suave, tropical folk melodies makes this the album of the month. Her famed, tongue-twisting Dansa de cabodo (Frog Song) and primitive, wailing Berimbao (about a dolphin who transformed itself into a youth no virgin could resist) are heady as Negrita rum...
...learned that his missing employes and 30 others had sailed the day before from Dyer's Cove, 60 miles from inland Rumford, to picnic on Monhegan Island. They had been taken there by Skipper Paul Johnson on the Don, a 44-foot "Nova Scotian," long past her rum-running prime. Thurston telephoned to the Coast Guard. They had seen nothing...