Word: barrooms
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...eyes twinkling brightly, the returned vacationist strode happily into his favorite café, expecting a joyful greeting. The first man to see him shuddered, sputtered and sagged into a chair. An old friend at the other side of the barroom hastily stamped out a cigarette and reverently removed his hat. Madame Labbaye, the patronne, peered from behind a potted palm. "What is wrong?" cried Roger. "Have I lost a child?" Roger couldn't make out the woman's excited answer...
...catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood in a barroom)." When another reader asked him to explain the Truman Doctrine in one-syllable words, Mewhinney obliged-in 285 one-syllable words...
...Sailor Bob Murphy wades into a fight with the free-swinging enthusiasm of a shore-leave sailor for a barroom brawl. Last week, facing Jake LaMotta at Yankee Stadium, Murphy was right in his element, throwing punches with the thumping regularity of a piston-if not with a piston's precision...
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...