Word: barroomful
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...boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric Swede foreman (Walter Brennan) who has been his best friend stays on to marry the dance-hall girl. It takes a full generation for Barney Glasgow to count the gains and losses of this move. The final audit comes when...
...arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils, announces that he is going to quit because his wife is afraid he will fall. Another man does fall, whereupon his co-workers traditionally knock off for the day, start drinking in their favorite barroom. When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which he in duces Nils to believe that his good wife is a prostitute. Nils kills himself and his wife (off stage) and Andy loses his job and goes crazy. There are times when this flimsy tale...
...coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
...Three Women" tells the story of the Communist Revolution in terms of the lives of three girls whose maturation is intertwined with the events of 1914-1919. Their blood-red songs electrify a barroom full of drunks in stirring manner, and later the whole bunch does a through job of massacring some White first-aid workers. There is thus very little of the tender or the suave, but the proletarian vigor is abundant...
...Paterson last week New Jersey's Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett was asked to pass on the propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene...