Word: bimini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ponce de Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain the "Fountain of Youth," but missed Bimini and discovered a bogus spring in Florida...
...into luscious red juice; there where the springs gush forth that transparent and God-given fluid sparkling with purity and virtue, the only proper drink for an American citizen; but if there be those of a grosser appetite who want to violate the constitution of America, there is Bimini, only an hour or two away...
...Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...
Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
Lupino Lane and Ann Pennington in a sprightly Bimini dance, with the Tiller girls kicking higher than ever...