Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valley of the Giants surrounds its heroic theme with robust climaxes as huge, numerous, tightly packed and ancient as the rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place...
...Seattle newsstands, in store windows, barroom mirrors, tobacco stalls, garage doors last week appeared posters announcing a memorial meeting in the Senator Auditorium for Thane Summers, 25, killed in May fighting with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Leftist Army in Spain. The posters were signed by "Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." Admission to the meeting...
...cinemaudience saw a crinolined & frock-coated production that cost $1,250,000, an intensely-played, adroitly-directed story, as like to Gone With the Wind as chicory is to coffee. After some badly-drawled atmosphere-setting about the propriety of mentioning a lady's name in a barroom, audiences knew that the girl to be reckoned with would be high-stepping Julie Marsden (Bette Davis), who had turned down a horse-&-hounds aristocrat named Buck Cantrell (George Brent) for one Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda...
...drawings ranging from scraggly diagrams to colored sketches of a Dutch harbor intended to show how painters of different schools depicted it. Caption: "As for the nonobjective virtuosi, they, of course, had the easiest time of all, for they could just as well have done the job in the barroom of the Players' Club...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...