Word: barkeeper
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...next afternoon, when the general strike began, not a brewer, baker, barber, barkeep or beautician was operating in all Pekin. In freezing cold union delegates had informed all merchants that if their shops were not locked up by the strike's deadline, their windows would be smashed. Not a shop in Pekin was open after 3 p.m. Six hundred allied workers at Corn Products Refining Co. then voted to walk out. Other workers promised to quit in sympathy...
...Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment, he permits the editors of his individual papers to accept beer and liquor advertisements at their own discretion, notes with delight that none is so indiscreet as to do so. A boyhood job as barkeep's assistant in a hotel taught Publisher Gannett to say: "After watching booze ruin men, I made up my mind that if I ever got a chance I would fight...
...jewels. Routed at last, when the disgraced third officer heroically redeems himself, the pirates disappear leaving the Kin Lung much better off than it was before. MacArdle is exposed as an amiable human rat. Captain Gaskell seems better disposed toward China Doll. The drunken novelist is sneering at the barkeep...
...meets up with a little old man, who makes a queerly indelible impression on him. Thereafter Johnny never knows when or where the little old man may appear; he begins to feel haunted. There is something terrible about the old man's eyes: he can stop a charging barkeep just by looking at him. Sadly troubled in mind, Johnny goes walking at night in Golden Gate Park. Out of the lake comes a beautiful girl, mother-naked and with the heart of a child. Her name, for some reason, is Trelia. She talks to Johnny in friendly fashion until...
...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...