Word: barroomful
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...slips downward; along the adjoining track the other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
...lawyers much as a school teacher would handle unruly primary children. While authoritative in his manner, he is not autocratic or haughty. His main endeavor is to preserve order and obedience, and to have the proceedings possess the dignity of a trial rather than resemble the wranglings in a barroom...
Whiteman himself is rather a proper person. He is no barroom piano thumper risen high, but a decently schooled musician who in his lowly days occupied the comparatively dignified position of symphony orchestra player...
...latest victim of this common fate is Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, author of the famous popular ballad, " The Face on the Barroom Floor," which our statisticians report still leads " The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew...
...College ran its own barroom, where grog, beer, and tarts could be purchased by the students. It was known as the Buttery, and was conveniently situated in the recorder's office. It was presided over by the Head Butler, who was a College graduate and who received 60 pounds a year for being College barkeeper, recorder, stationer, bell-ringer, and janitor...