Careful Words

rum (n.)

rum (v.)

rum (adv.)

rum (adj.)

There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms

As rum and true religion.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 34.

  We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

Samuel D. Burchard (1812-1891),—one of the deputation visiting Mr. Blaine, Oct. 29, 1884.