Cocoanut

In Palm Beach, at the end of the pretty street called Cocoanut Row, sits the Everglades Club, built by the heir to the Singer Sewing Machine millions, a Moorish fantasy of a country club that looked ancient even before it opened.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

I wouldn't want to be called Cocoanut Kisses, nor yet Lollypops, nor even Tootsie Rolls.

Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys Howard Roger Garis 1917

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Cocoanut Grove L. Lee Lowe 2009

Imagine someone trying to hawk costume jewelry made with singed palm fronds from Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub—where a horrific fire killed 492 people in 1942.

Titanic Centennial Commemorations Sink to New Lows Eric Felten 2012

Cocoanut Grove, one of Ron Slate's recently published poems, appears in today's Washington Post, where he writes:

Cocoanut Grove L. Lee Lowe 2009

Cocoanut Grove, one of Ron Slate's recently published poems, appears in today's Washington Post, where he writes:

Archive 2009-05-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

Cocoanut-planting was his particular idea, with trading, and maybe pearling, along with other things, until the plantation should come into bearing.

Chapter 5 2010

Cocoanut palms grew in spots on the circle of sand, and there were many gaps where the sand was too low to the sea for cocoanuts, and through which could be seen the protected lagoon where the water lay flat like the ruffled surface of a mirror.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

“Cocoanut water, rum and gin” on steel drums, guitar and trap set outside on the deck by the pool.

My Old Man, Across a Hotel Pool in the Bahamas Con Chapman 2011

Not only is this similar to the Cocoanut Grove owners, but it may also raise questions of the criminal liability of those regulators.

Paul Abrams: Precedent for BP Criminal Responsibility: The Cocoanut Grove Fire (1942) 2010