Word: barkeeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gimmick in the five cent beer is the small glass that surrounds it. The publicity conscious barkeep in New York now in the national spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...
...moppets in. They perched on bar stools or sat on, around and sometimes under the tables to watch Radigan's television: Du Mont's Small Fry Club, WATV's Junior Frolics, and such. Creepers and toddlers were allowed to bring mother along. At 7, the barkeep swept out the bairns and let the guzzlers in again...
...Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...
...like it or not, the trade was forced to string along with a Chicago barkeep: "You gotta have it whether you want to or not . . . or you start holding hands with yourself...
Champa Street. For four decades, Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils and his crony H. H. Tammen, a onetime barkeep, had run the paper like a circus, built circulation with spectacular outdoor shows, cheap insurance tie-ins, prizes for every want ad. The Post earned a million dollars a year, and put little of it into improving its contents...