GR translation: rum-smoky, dynamite man

[alice wellintown]

I knew a dynamite-man or powder-monkey who worked in the tunnels in
NYC; one of the most fascinating men I've met in NYC; his biography os
almost too fantanstic to believe.


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> P131.5-8  ... -- from singing his childhood along the rum-smoky saloons of High Holborn Street where the sailers throw mammoth red firecrackers, quarter of a stick of dynamite man, ...
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> I assume "rum-smoky" means "full of rum smell and cigarette smoke", is that correct? And what is "dynamite man"?
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