Word: barring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house centered around shipping and merchants ship owners, as did the activities of all New England. The leading merchants of the day, like Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Isreal Thorndike, and William Sturgis and John Bryant of the Northwest fur trade, seem to have enjoyed the vintages from Mr. Jones' bar...
Chicago, often casually termed the "worst governed city in the world,'' approached, last week, another major cure experiment. Coming to a head was a plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this...
...that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound, on the same day. The Caronia is more costly than the President Roosevelt, is also not so fast. But the Caronia has a bar. First trip results between speed v. alcohol showed 240 passengers on the wet Caronia, 204 on the dry Roosevelt...
Smartest Parisians of the ċercle du Ritz Bar were titillated and intrigued, last week, by news from Manhattan that General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt seemed finally reconciled not only with their lanky ex-publisher son Cornelius Jr., but also with their cherub-faced and rumpus-raising nephew Erskine Gwynne...
Practical. Some U. S. citizens, obedient to prohibition laws at home, enjoy cocktails, wines, on the high seas. British-owned, the Caronia maintains an excellent bar, serves choice wines with meals...