Word: barrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well in a 1940 beer hall...
Many a U. S. citizen finds it difficult to dissociate barbershop singing from barroom. Not so the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. which rarely mixes liquor with its lyrics, explains simply: "A drunk can't sing." Equally proud is the society of the propriety of its songs, not one of which "you couldn't sing in Church...
...Rocky Mountain west believes generally that the Allies have irretrievably lost the war, and that the reason lies in the fact that they called names and offered criticism of Germany without the force necessary to back it up. This is a serious error in any barroom, and today international law and barroom law are about the same. The U. S. is less well prepared to back up its criticisms of the Axis Powers than the Allies were. Therefore it is the height of foolishness for our nation to stick its head in the lion's jaws and incur...