Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said she: ''My heart bleeds for those unfortunate men, but . . .") Crying "The Lady calls" through chattering teeth, the nine jumped once more, later were succored by their heroine with rum and cake...
...after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum...
...Ledge, off the Rhode Island coast, fishermen caught bottles of 20-year-old Scotch whiskey in their nets. They had found an area where prohibition rum runners had dumped their cargo when hard pressed by the Coast Guard...
...President himself kept routine business to a holiday minimum. He popped over to Union Station to see the Freedom Train, peered at one of General George Washington's army supply accounts, noted: "Rum on every page." He received a delegation of National Guardsmen, told them that he would again ask Congress to authorize universal military training. He was presented with a maroon tie, emblazoned with a Missouri mule leading a camel bearing three wise men. Ex-Haberdasher Truman promptly twisted the tie into a salesman's knot, observed: "I haven't forgotten...