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Word: barkeepers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have felt if he had known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charlie Goes to Washington | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...occasional touch of middle-aged resignation (sometimes known as wisdom). Marquand suggests that the country club is an oasis of sanity shut away "from a few of the more unpleasant realities that surround us." With its parking spaces achoke, its locker rooms asweat, its bars awash, and a loyal barkeep resolutely giving the little woman at the end of the telephone the wrong answer as to her husband's whereabouts, the U.S. country club may just possibly be the American's castle-and in its way no less impressive than the Baths of Caracalla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American's Castle | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Price War. In Baltimore, calculating that he had 7? worth of beer left when the barkeep announced closing time, Patrick Duran noisily demanded a refund, refused on principle to accept an offer of 10? in reparations from a policeman who showed up to make peace, responded to another law officer's comment ("For five cents I'll lock you up") by plunking down a nickel, was hauled off to the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...stepped off a ship in the Panamanian town of Colón, the tropics got Max Bilgray, a Chicago barkeep done out of a living by the Volstead Act. That was 35 years ago, and Bilgray never even tried to get away. He became, instead, the best-known saloonkeeper in Caribbean latitudes, the boss of Colón's far-famed Tropic Bar and Restaurant. This New Year's, Bilgray's customers will as usual wrap their hands around their holiday glasses of whisky in the bar on the narrow street Colón calls Bottle Alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Bottle Alley Barkeep | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...word of an arresting officer is sufficient evidence to convict a liquor store owner or barkeep of violation of the law. In most cases, the student involved is not arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive on Illegal Sales of liquor May Dry Up Princeton by Nov. 6 | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

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