Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-intentioned but somewhat humorless blurb writer for this, Mr. Cozzens' third novel, declares on the jacket that it is "A dramatic and exciting novel of Cuba, where SUGAR dominates and warps men's lives." His unhappiness of expression is lamentable, but a perusal of Cock Pit discloses that his analysis is substantially correct. It is rather to be regretted that he does not mention any other of Cock Pit's qualities or characteristics, for Cock Pit is a pretty good book...
...view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
Married. Florence Hildegard Havemeyer, daughter of Henry O. Havemeyer (railways, copper, sugar) of Mahwah, N. J.; and George Foreman Robinson, son of Richard H. M. Robinson, Manhattan shipping tycoon & naval architect; in Mahwah...
...inland. Fifty miles west of Palm Beach lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three...
Thus, the Hearst "whispering campaign"−whispers which shout, cartoons which anybody can understand−implying that Mr. Smith's Democratic Party is the party of notorious women, jugs of liquor, money for profane pearls, with Mr. Raskob as chief sugar-daddy...