Word: rum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having a series of contests," says one Harvard traveler who wished to remain anonymous. "One [contest] was a request for the biggest bra size. At first I ignored it. When the biggest size they could get was 34B, I said 'That's really pathetic.' I won a bottle of rum for the contest. I met a lot of new friends that...
...first dance, entitled "Company B," is basically a lighthearted demonstration of fun 1940's-style dances, against the darker overtones of the tragedies of World War II. Some dancers, particularly Pollyana Ribeiro in "Rum and Coca-Cola" and Paul Thrussell in "Oh Johnny," win lauds for balancing spirited charm with grace and elegance. Unfortunately, many of the other performers do not seem to know now to have fun. In the supposedly-lively "Pennsylvania Polka," dancers Jennifer Gelfand and Carlos Ivan Santos look uncomfortable and embarrassed to be doing the polka between melodramatic air-kisses on-stage...
When the Cambridge Licensing Commission conducted their sting on October 14, chief investigator Andrea Boyer identified Deal's drink as a rum and coke. Deal testified before the ABCC that the beverage contained no alcohol...
...parents saw an empty bottle of rum. Of course I said it was a decoration someone gave me," Riddle said...
...warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career--but not Maxene's. She went solo, wrote a memoir and recently helped veterans celebrate the 50th anniversary of a war she and her sisters had made slightly easier for Americans to endure...