Word: boozers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terangi was an island aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...
...broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter...