Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sipping a drink in the bar of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, Richard Usborne caught this strange snatch of conversation from a nearby table. He lost the rest of it in the buzz of barroom talk. That was in May 1941. In the next ten years, the world fought the bloodiest war in its history, the British Empire nearly went down to defeat, the King David Hotel (bar included) was badly damaged by a terrorist bomb. But Richard Usborne, an advertising man, never stopped worrying about what could possibly be the story behind that lion...
...What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can go into a barroom fight without getting hurt...
...become 1951's first big hit. Its sprightly tempo had been slowed by Conductor-Composer Percy Faith to a lazy waltz, and its elegant tale of pastoral courtship changed to a monotonous lover's lament.* Result: the song is a favorite with crooners, hillbilly specialists and barroom baritones. Six of its eleven recorded versions (including those by Guy Mitchell, Dinah Shore and Jimmy Wakely) are listed on Billboard and Variety popularity charts...
...Home & Abroad. In Providence, R.I., Harold Fitzpatrick, after a barroom celebration, explained how he happened to throw bricks through 16 panes of glass in a downtown business building: "I thought I was in Woonsocket...
...Arizona Plain Talk, a weekly, shouldered into the barroom argument. Either someone on the paper was working with the drys, said the weekly, or "the paper has been duped by one of the most obvious and oldest frauds in journalism." Another weekly, the Arizona News (circ. 5,217), thought it was mighty peculiar that the Republic ran "hard liquor advertising ($200,000 worth a year) that drives my daddy to hard drinking...