rumrunner

Example Sentences

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A Detroit chorus girl weds her stage producer without telling her rumrunner boyfriend.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2021

The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

As specified by the 1924 British-American extraterritorial seizure convention, a rumrunner may also be boarded within one hour's sail of the coast by the boats concerned.

From Time Magazine Archive

During supper a man's face appeared at a screened porthole of the Wanderwell schooner Carma, onetime rumrunner bought at Government auction.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon thousands of radio intercepts were pouring into her office, just as they had done during the rumrunner days.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield