Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very few of Fiske's pale paraphrases of barroom jokes, his irrelevant elaborations of smoking-room mythology, are as frankly dramatic as "Mr. Jones's Night Off." Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
Following the custom inaugurated by Eliot House this spring, Leverett House will present its first play in the House Dining Hall Monday night at 8.30 o'clock. The play, "Ten Nights in a Barroom," is a typical temperence melodrama of the bygone days and involves much bloodshed and frequent Carrie Nation tactics in its denunciation of drink and the terrors that it brings to the home. All members of the University are invited, and any lady accompanied by an escort will be admitted...
Leverett House will present the well-known melodrama. "Ten Nights in a Barroom," sometime...
With her tongue ever so slightly in her cheek, Mrs. Chester Dale, collector and authority on French painting, helped organize four months ago an exhibition of the paintings of the late Alphonse Bouguereau, barroom decorator par excellence of the Gay Nineties. For all their technical slickness, the correct perspective for looking at a Bouguereau nude was always obtained through the bottom of a 16 oz. beer glass. Critics in the chill light of a formal art gallery were not impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition...
Much has happened to Maurice Sterne since the barroom brawl of 1895: He studied under the late great Thomas Eakins. Lived and painted in Germany, France, Italy, Egypt, India. Spent two years in Bali 20 years ago (and produced the best paintings yet to appear from that overpainted paradise). Married and divorced the late D. H. Lawrence's friend Mabel Dodge. Made an artist of importance of his lawyer, banker, publisher friend Edward Bruce. Became the unofficial lord of the little Italian hilltown of Anticoli. In Anticoli he lives in a 48-room castle, spends most of his time...