Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark for $25,000,000. They are not big (132 square miles); the harbor of St. Thomas looks like a baby Golden Gate. In this realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because the U. S. has not yet granted them citizenship. The population has been steadily decreasing, because of Negro migrations to Haiti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and New York City...
...have done with this tempting situation is, first, to build up an impressive number of ingenious but superficial complications, explaining each little complication as it approaches, when it arrives, after it has departed, so that not the least in the audience will be deprived of his mite; then, to sugar-coat the whole with a lovable uncle who pets the cat and helps along the matrimony. When Broadway's last niece and nephew have chortled with childish glee over Tomany, it will probably be seized upon by all the stock companies throughout the land. Juvenile William Janney, Ingenue...
...years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles, but for at least two decades tame agriculture, led by stub-horned cattle and sugar made from cowbeets, has been twice as important to Denver as mining...
...routine she had laid out for me. The question of diet was a big one. I was warned under no circumstances should an actress permit herself to get fat. This also applies to college men. I warn them against ice cream potatoes, cake, rice, or anything with much sugar if they want to keep their perfect...
...denatured alcohol containing poison is labeled poison. The bootlegger who takes that label off and substitutes his fake label is as guilty of murder as the man who would sell arsenic as sugar...