Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which to many a customer seemed to be over proof. Samples: anywhere from 45? to $1.60 for highballs (1¼ ounces of whiskey per drink), $1.10 for Planter's Punch, 60? for Martinis and Manhattans, 95? for Side Cars, $1.60 for the fancy Zombie (featuring six varieties of rum...
...Chamberlain was no appeaser in those days; besides, there are few on Andros, even today, who have actually seen a chickcharney (first cousin to a leprechaun). Some time ago a native awoke in a thicket at sunrise, after a rum-soaked night, and saw them by the thousands at their morning ritual-carrying snakes to hundreds of tiny cauldrons on the beach, anointing their supple bodies with snake oil, dressing themselves each with an almond leaf in front and an almond leaf behind, and swinging off through the trees like tiny Tarzans to hunt game with bows & arrows...
Long Shot. In London, Ranee, a female elephant at the zoo, felt a cold-in-the-trunk coming on, was dosed by her keeper with a pint of rum...
...thousand would-be toreros milled about, practicing footwork and capework (usual cape: a shirt). Finally the first bull appeared, took a look around and lit out after the aficionados. A few, emboldened by rum, turned to meet him. As soon as the bull had dealt with them, he went after another yelling group. Once he got too close, and a hard-pressed torero leaped into a pond convenient for just such an emergency...
Died. William V. ("Big Bill") Dwyer, 63, onetime "king of the bootleggers," who in Prohibition days commanded a fleet of 20 rum-runners, controlled the entry of liquor into New York Harbor; of a heart attack; in Belle Harbor, Queens. After spending "a little vacation" in Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary (he was convicted of bootlegging in 1926), he tried to rebuild his crumbled fortune through sports promoting, bought the N.Y. Americans hockey team, introduced professional hockey to Manhattan, headed Miami's famed Gables Racing Association...