Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revenues (mostly customs duties) and expenditures of the country are less than half a million dollars a year, and foreign commerce is about three times as much. There are no railroads; there are about 55 miles of roads suitable for automobiles. Cotton goods, gin and tobacco are leading imports; rubber, palm oil, coffee, ivory, etc. are the chief exports. Rubber gets into the category of a chief product, not because there are 22 varieties of rubber trees and plants growing in the jungle, but because there is one rubber plantation recently established, which brought 1,200 acres of rubber plantation...
...high spots of the play include: An opening scene in which Senator Cassius Clayborn and his bootlegger are disclosed drinking gin behind the locked door of his office. The Senator is up for reelection. The Reverend Dr. Kew-back, an ardent dry, comes to his office and threatens to ruin his chances by publishing a story about a trip which his daughter made to Atlantic City with her fiance, an attache of the British Legation, unless the Senator will vote a large appropriation for Prohibition enforcement. They also argue over Prohibition. The Senator thrusts the Prohibition Bible (in which "raisin...
...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...
...GOOSE WOMAN-Rex Beach- Harper ($2.00). A goose-raising, gin-drinking onetime prima donna nearly earns her son a hanging by inventing evidence in a murder case just to see her name in the newspapers again...
...Goose Woman, from Rex Beach's story of that name, was an opera star before her baby's birth withered her voice. By the time he has grown up, she is keeping geese and drinking gin in a smelly old shack. She hates him for her obscurity, impedes his business success and tries to muddle his marriage. Then he is charged with murder and at the last moment mother love conquers all. Louise Dresser gives an exceptionally good performance in another one you will probably like...