Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rum Fun. Royal Academy President Sir Gerald Kelly, 71, was of two minds about it. "I dislike distortion," he confessed, "and I wish Spencer's figures were more representational. Instead he picks his design and then twists his figures to fit into it. But I suppose his rumness just adds to the fun of his painting...
Hungary's socialized candy industry last week polled "elite schoolchildren" to find out just how to flavor the new "Elite Pupil" candy bar (target for the first year of the Five-Year Plan: 1,000,000). The children sampled bars of orange, vanilla and rum flavors. The country kids liked vanilla; those in Budapest, rum. So there will be two kinds. Said a Communist official of the candy trust: "Candies are no longer the monopoly of the wealthy capitalist children...
After dark, diamonds lost some of their charms. The women lived freely with the men, changing partners frequently. One girl of 20, called Penicilina, devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...
...island of Bermuda was discovered in 1515 by a Spanish sea-captain whose name, strangely enough, was Juan de Bermudez. To celebrate this coincidence, the entire Bermuda Chamber of Commerce bicycled through the surf to meet his boat and present generous gifts of rum and other sundry spirits...