Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said of the stories of F. Dogbody, Surgeon, late of His Majesty's Navy, who passed his evenings after 1817 in the Cheerful Tortoise, Will Tunn Prop., Portsmouth. Doctor Dogbody's stories concerning his peg leg and how he acquired it were told over fine Port Royal rum to a circle of old seamen like himself, fully able to check his reminiscences of ships, battles, commanders. Such was the Doctor's art and agility that nobody ever caught him out, except in the trifling detail that he never lost his leg the same way twice...
...island continent, that New Guinea is no part of it, that there is no continent between Australia and South America. He also discovered that lime or lemon juice prevents scurvy, and was so far in advance of his age that he flogged his seamen only when they preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters. On one of the islands which he had named after the inventor of the sandwich (the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty), the proponent of lime juice was captured by cannibals. From shipboard that night...
...ornery rivals go partners on a stump-sucking, tobacco-chewing, rum-drinking mule, bedevil each other for 30 years by further corrupting the mule in ways that will cause most trouble to the other...
...Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
Whisky, brandy, rum...