ATDTDA (2): Miscellaneous debris re: pp. 51 - 2

[Tim Strzechowski]

Anarchists and heads of state being defined these days as natural enemies [...] (51.2).
 
 
Possibly one aspect of this statement relates to the following situation:
 
Queen Liliʻuokalani
On September 16, 1862, she married John Owen Dominis, who became Governor of Oʻahu and Maui. They had no children; Liliʻuokalani's heiress for several years was her niece Victoria Kaʻiulani (1875–1899), although Kaʻiulani predeceased her.

Liliʻuokalani inherited the throne from her brother Kalâkaua on January 17, 1891. Shortly after she gained power, she tried to abrogate the existing "Bayonet Constitution", so named because it had been signed by the previous monarch under the threat of force, and draft a new constitution that would restore power to the monarchy. American and European subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii, threatened by the elimination of suffrage by the queen's proposed constitution, asserted that the queen had "virtually abdicated" by trying to subvert the constitution and organized to depose her. Besides the threatened loss of suffrage, business interests within the Kingdom were concerned about the removal of foreign tariffs in the American sugar trade due to the McKinley Act (which effectively eliminated the favored status of Hawaiian sugar due to the Reciprocity Treaty), and considered the possibility of annexation to the United States (and enjoying the same sugar bounties as domestic producer
s) as a welcome side effect of ending the monarchy. During the overthrow in 1893 the American minister in Hawaiʻi at the time, John L. Stevens, ordered troops from the U.S.S. Boston ashore, to protect American businesses and property. The Queen was deposed on January 17, 1893, and a provisional government was instituted. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliuokalani

http://hawaii-nation.org/rape.html

 
One day he came bounding into Lew's office surrounded by a nimbus of cheer phony as nickel-a-quart bay rum" (51.23).
Bay rum is the name of a cologne or an after-shave.

It is a distillate that was originally made from rum and the leaves or berries of the West Indian Bay tree, Pimenta racemosa. Other ingredients may be citrus and spice oils.

Bay rum was quite popular in the early 20th century; while still in use, it is no longer common.

Other uses include as under-arm deodorant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_rum


Lew reached for a panatela and lit up (51.37).

A panatela (also panetela, panetella) is a long, slender cigar. The word derives from the Spanish word for a long thin biscuit, from the Italian diminutive panatella, which ultimately derives from the Latin pânis, "bread."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panatela

http://www.cigarweekly.com/cigardb/style.asp?cat=6&Origin=0&method=nameasc

http://doutniky.xf.cz/panatela.gif