Word: barred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second, and eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with a television set, which eliminates one excuse for going to a neighborhood bar. Life's derelicts are put to work mending old clothes, fixing broken furniture and radio sets-and get back, if all goes well, on the road to self-respect and usefulness...
...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
This is generally the sentiment at the bars that circle the Yard. The "don't let 'em get drunk" school prevails over the discipline of the bouncer and the bar stick in these parts...
...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...
...event of trouble in a Boston bar, under the Licensing Board's new ruling, the bartender should call the police. Punching customers or bouncing them out into the street will be punished by disciplinary action--and not of the University Hall variety. Loss of license may follow such violations...