Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, a hysterical mother. At 17, gay, giddy Gertrude eloped with one of her divorced mother's suitors, sulky, jealous, half-Spanish George Atherton, who had Spanish ideas on the subjugation of women. When he died in 1887 and was shipped home from Chile in a barrel of rum, his young widow had learned little respect for men or for marriage...
...21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks, is well on his way to becoming America's No. 1 turfman. Young Labrot, whose ancestors made a fortune in rum, is carrying on where his father left off in 1935-requesting that his sons refrain from racing for five years after his death. Young Brady, grandson of the late Financier Anthony Nicholas Brady (who left an estate of $85,000,000), has been modestly buying thoroughbreds for the past few years...
Died. Colonel His Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...
Last week French Admiral Robert, War Coordinator of the French West Indies, was still in control of the island of Martinique. French colonial troops went on drilling in tropical heat. French warships lay in the big harbor of Fort-de-France. But island exports of rum, bananas, sugar, pineapples had all but stopped. A British fleet of unknown size patrolled the nearby waters-carefully avoiding the appearance of a blockade, making certain that French warships would not streak for home, watching for signs of a Nazi attempt to establish a submarine base on the island. Somewhere nearby, destroyers...