Word: barrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some 25 minutes of penalties called during the contest, but referee Cleary did a creditable job in keeping the game out of the "barroom brawl" category...
Bobbed Hair & Bare Facts. But Prohibition (1920) dried up the Police Gazette's barroom circulation, and in 1922 it lost most of its barbershop trade when women invaded man's next-to-last retreat from womankind to have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year...
Cambridge pub-owners were smacking their lips in anticipatory glee, and crowding barroom stools more closely together for the television fans...
...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official...
Okefenokee Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec...