Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped off a ship in the Panamanian town of Colón, the tropics got Max Bilgray, a Chicago barkeep done out of a living by the Volstead Act. That was 35 years ago, and Bilgray never even tried to get away. He became, instead, the best-known saloonkeeper in Caribbean latitudes, the boss of Colón's far-famed Tropic Bar and Restaurant. This New Year's, Bilgray's customers will as usual wrap their hands around their holiday glasses of whisky in the bar on the narrow street Colón calls Bottle Alley...
Hard Drinking. Saloonkeeper Bilgray earned his fame by making the Tropic into a serious drinkingman's bar-an honest saloon that scorned chromium, jukeboxes and B-girls. Its sights and sounds were shiny brass, dark wood panels, man-to-man talk and softly whirling fans...
Night and day-for the Tropic closes only on Panama's election days-customers came and went: freighter captains, Navy C.P.O.s, Panama Presidents and judges, pugs, policemen and passing yachtsmen. A young U.S. Army officer named Dwight Eisenhower once cashed his paycheck there; Argentina's exiled ex-President Juan Perón has dropped in lately. In the early '30s Aimee Semple McPherson, the thrice-divorced Foursquare Gospelbinder, visited Belgray's incognito...
...cloud of flies at the antelope who pass disdainfully a few feet from where he lies, knowing that it is the queen who brings home most of the bacon. In fact, the only demonstrable hardship in a lion's life is the rainy season, during which the tropic plains sometimes lie sunk under six inches of water. The lion looks terribly unhappy about it, but he lies down anyway...
...instant Ted comes boulevarding into view, through a window, the moviegoer has a sudden reflex to check his wallet. Hair plastered down, three days' growth of beard, sour-looking tropic-whites, smile like an overpolished apple and nasty little eye like a worm in it: Newton is the picture of a man who has made a gin fizzle of his life, and figures to cadge a chaser...