Word: bar-room
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...become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
When Janet Bender, school librarian for the town of Stroudsburg, Pa. (pop. 6,300), first heard of the strange bequest, she scarcely knew which way to turn. Where ever would she get hold of ten copies of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There-the 19th century's gruesome lost-weekend tract? Unless she did, her two school libraries might never be able to profit by the $25,000 left in trust by the eccentric old ex-schoolteacher, Samuel Schoonover. An ardent, lifetime Prohibitionist, Schoonover had stated, in effect, in his will: no Ten Nights...
...Bar-Room Tour. Meanwhile, the law went on yawning at gambling, and Dixon got action in another way. He helped set up the People's Action Group, a citizens' committee which sent secret "flying squads" iato gaming rooms after evidence. For months they roamed the bars, collecting affidavits of betting in 35 of them, turned the affidavits over to District Attorney Hawkins. Last month, P.A.G. asked a grand jury to charge Ham Reid (the fourth generation Reid to be Calcasieu Parish sheriff) with malfeasance. Gambling suddenly stopped. Hawkins used the affidavits to take 33 barkeeps before Judge Pickrel...
...journalistic responsibility, and the degradation of royalty as it wallows in its plot; "Western Union" sticks to putting up its telegraph line. "Buffalo Bill" gapes for minutes at a time at its overdressed heroine--it was a dour day when someone discovered that Alexis Smith in tights, watching a bar-room brawl, could pull in millions of dollars from audiences that had formerly found Westerns beyond comprehension...
...customer-protecting ruling followed a Thanksgiving Day bar-room fracas in which a South Boston longshoreman claimed he was beaten over the head with a baseball bat. The longshoreman, Joseph Fratolillo, spent 11 days unconscious in City Hospital with a fractured skull...