Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Hugh Antoine D'Arcy, 82, author of "The Face upon the (Barroom) Floor," in Manhattan, of chronic bronchitis...
...regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames and smoke issuing from between his toes. The Colonel took the recipe to Washington, D. C., named it "the hot buttered bun" in deference to the late Mr. Bryan and made his fortune selling it to Senators...
...from the van. They produced a play by E. Temple Thurston about an Englishman who wanted to go back to the engaging path of his early adventuring in Africa. His wife persuaded him that Liverpool and love were better. An early scene in Africa and a barroom temptation episode round out the evening...
...without him, his girl was kidnapped. Searching for a short cut to town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over the hazardous ice-fields of the Sierras, where only...
...cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with the ex-wastrel, a flashy theatrical promoter is casually killed. It looks like a blow to South Africa. But a stranger, a queer, forlorn barroom porter who has befriended the girl, shoulders the guilt so they can still use the steamer tickets...