Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Up to that moment Sam was just a pensioned pumper driver from the Bayonne (N.J.) fire department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam...
Oilman Glenn McCarthy's little hootenanny, opening his $21 million Shamrock hotel (TIME, March 21), turned St. Patrick's Day in Houston into a Donnybrook. McCarthy's 2,500 guests (200 of them from Hollywood) milled past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby'...
There was an angry stir in the crowds. Someone yelled that a U.S. sailor had urinated on the head of Cuba's hero. A band of students, hearing the uproar, rushed over, grabbed glasses and bottles from bars, bombarded the stranded bluejackets. Only fast police work saved the sailors...
V.V.O. In Tokyo, agents of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division cracked down on Japanese bootleggers, confiscated dozens of bottles of "American whisky," including one labeled "Famous since 1484."
Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, king of jazz trumpeters, went back home for a brief reign as King of the Zulus at New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Buttoned into an outlandish red velvet tunic, and brandishing a silver scepter and a fat black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in...