Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ragged Army. He gave up his commission in disillusionment-to marry a rich widow, gain election to the House of Burgesses (he bought vast quantities of ale and rum, as was the custom, to get out the vote), and to live the life of a prosperous but restless country gentleman. But he did not falter, 16 years later, as the fever of rebellion swept the colonies. "The . . . peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood or Inhabited by Slaves," he wrote. "Can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice...
...appetite, for such a willowy (5 ft 6 in., 120 Ibs.) creature, is remarkable. One recent evening she ate, in order of their appearance: an antipasto salad, a heavy Mozzarella cheese appetizer, a heaping plate of lasagna, a chocolate eclair, a dish of sherbet, an after-dinner drink of rum, brandy, chocolate and crème de cacao. Still feeling a little hungry, she then ordered another portion of Mozzarella. With the same verve and energy, she keeps the long-distance wires hot to some 60 disk jockeys, as well as to her sister Betty (a nightspot singer who records...
...complainers in a garret until they waste away. Then he buries them in the garden. Luckily, Sabrina does not waste away easily. She is still in fine shape when she is rescued by Sir John Templar's lawyer, who has forethoughtedly dropped poison in Sir William's rum. Indeed, the lawyer is so inflamed by Sabrina that he abducts her to Belgium, where he ties her daily to a bedpost and flogs her. Author Marshall's descriptions of these whippings seem almost pathological-until it is recalled that she is trying to portray the rich 18th century...
...abysmally ignorant. In Barataria they slept on sacking on the floor of their leaky hut, sold their milk and vegetables in the slum neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought on credit at the store of Tall Boy, the Chinaman, and occasionally beating up Urmilla. For Urmilla it meant doing the primitive housework, delivering the milk, worshiping Tiger, and having babies. Everything might have gone well enough in picturesque squalor if Tiger hadn't begun to think about things...
...work on a new road for the U.S. Army for more money than he'd ever seen before. He got started on a new brick house to replace the hut, made Ur-milla buy her first shoes and a new dress, invited his Army bosses to a rum-washed dinner. But he had taught himself to read, and now thoughts clouded his expanding horizons. What was life all about? Could he ever break away from his dreary existence? Could a colored ma~n ever get a break in a white man's world? He daydreamed about getting...