What does "R.W.T." mean in the context of three worldly evils?

The acronym is from a phrase known as a "hendiatris". Some common ones are: Wine, women and song Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll Rum, bum, and concertina. The last of these has a variant in the British Navy that is stated as "Rum, Bum, and Baccy".

This is known politely as Rum, Women, and Tobacco, or R.W.T.

After much searching, I am still not certain of the answer as to what R.W. T means. The author is terse in his reference and there are no sources listed at the back of this book. Viz means "namely," so it seems to me that, rather than quoting an author, he is using an acronym that represents what he thinks are the three greatest evils of this life.

After doing a search for various versions of what are "the three great evils," of which many people have come up with sets of three that suit their various occasions, I found that Voltaires Candide was the most famous and frequently used author, who listed the 3 great evils as idleness, vice and want. To make an acronym from synonyms of these words, you can substitute torpor for idleness and you have two of the letters, T. And W.

, but to have the whole acronym of R.W.T. , I had to substitute rot for vice, as per the thesaurus reference below, to make it Rot, Want and Torpor. I have no idea if that is what he meant, but that sounds great to me. It could be true that he is referencing someone else's work, but there appears to be no authors for the 19th century and before that have the initials RWT.As a humorous aside, I found someone who listed the three great evils as winter, fascism and clowns....... to modern to fit within this context, but entertaining anyway.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.