Word: barman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barman at Harry's New York Bar on the Rue Daunou ran a moody eye over his orderly customers, wiped a glass and remembered sadly, "We used to have four times as many Americans in here. They drank four times as much and got into four times as many fights...
...Americans over whom Harry's barman gloomed were outnumbered this year by half a million Britons, 900,000 Belgians, 400,000 Swiss, 150,000 Scandinavians and 90,000 Spaniards. The 200,000 from the U.S., however, had left some $78 million behind to provide France with her biggest single chunk of hard currency outside the Marshall Plan. The 1949 American tourists were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still...
Habitués of the Cantina de los Médicos swear that a man once given up for dead by Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
Mournfully the Madrid correspondent reported: "The last session of roulette was desolating. People played only 10-and 20-franc notes. The baccarat game . . . closed for lack of a banker. The barman at the Casino sold his last Henry Clay cigars for 1,000 francs. A few weeks ago they were 10,000 francs. Nobody wanted to buy whiskey. . . . Monaco is a desert...
Eventually, however, he made it. He played his horn in Paris nightclubs, joined the first jazz band ever to play in Ger. many (their audiences included brass hats in the Army of Occupation at Coblenz). Back in Paris, Hiler was manager, host, musician and barman at the famed Jockey, Left Bank hot spot owned by Jockey Milton Henry's wealthy widow. One night in her cups Proprietress Henry ejected a Negro who proved to be a Senegalese prince and member of the Chamber of Deputies. Next day the Jockey was padlocked. Hiler reopened it, invited every Negro in Paris...