Word: mingo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Due Libation. In Williamson, W. Va., after returning a guilty verdict in a first-degree murder trial, eight members of the jury of Mingo County Circuit Court were found guilty of contempt and fined $25 each for drinking beer and whisky while deliberating in a hotel room...
James Street, who is best known for his rawboned bestsellers about the antebellum South (Mingo Dabney, Tap Roots), is modest enough not to confuse his merchandise with literature. "Those of us who write for profit," he once said, "must never forget that if we drink the punch we must take the pokes." The book business being what it is, Novelist Street is pretty sure to get another bowlful of punch for The Velvet Doublet...