Word: barroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Good sets by Designer Clark Robinson include a barroom walled solid with bottles, and a Russian cafe...
Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...
...substitute for Tenor John McCormack, who refused an offer of $5,000 to come and sing (his daughter is being married shortly in Ireland), the Tribune found a fat barroom baritone named Tom Garvey, who was carefully planted in the audience. At the director's request for "any singing Irishman to take McCormack's place." he rose and throbbed out "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Mother Macree" with sentimental gusto...
...Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded men and women" to renounce the dripping major political parties, form a Dry third. And after eight years Brooklyn's scrappy little Ella Alexander Boole, 74, resigned the organization's presidency, in favor...
Potter Palmer's greatest contributions to U. S. social history were the silver dollar motif for barroom floors and his Chicago home at No. 1350 Lake Shore Drive.* Last week, after a lapse of three years, the great castellated pile that he plunked down on a sand dune in 1882 was repossessed by his family...