Gertrude “Cleo” Lythgoe was a born badass and Prohibition was her time to shine.

Gertrude “Cleo” Lythgoe was a born badass and Prohibition was her time to shine. While people across the country were peddling watered-down, colored-up liquor—moonshine that made you go blind—Lythgoe set up a wholesale liquor business in the Bahamas and imported premium whiskey from London and Glasgow later to be bootlegged into the States.