Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moines, Federal revenooers socked Barmaid Ruth Shepler with a claim for $44,693.84 in back taxes, insisted that her feat of balancing two to four glasses of beer on her breasts as she goes about her work constitutes "entertainment," thus subjects her tavern to the 20% U.S. cabaret...
...musicians' union recommends two ways to alleviate the situation: 1) repeal the 20% cabaret tax in the hope that owners will hire musicians again, and 2) pay a Government subsidy to performing organizations such as European countries...
...next night every House is planning a dance of some kind. Lowell will put down a floor in the court yard for an open air dance. Kirkland will demand costumes for a masquerade Saturday. A cabaret will give Dunster a French touch with small tables placed about the rooms. Students will be allowed to bring drinks. Leverett, Adams, Dudley, Winthrop, and Eliot will hold to convention with formal dances Saturday...
...year ago Saigon's Rue Catinat was a glittering, neon-splashed midway choked with shoppers, promenaders and fun-seekers. Last week its sidewalks were all but deserted. Shop after shop stood with windows boarded up. At a cabaret once loud with the jokes and brawling of red-bereted paratroopers, sailors and the képis blancs of the French Foreign Legion, all was quiet. By the hundreds and thousands the French, with no place in the new independent state of Viet Nam, were leaving the city they had once made famous as "the Paris of the Orient...
...blank," was soon free on $2,500 bond. But the victim, a 33-year-old drifter, slightly wounded in the shoulder, was jugged as a material witness, with bail set at $5,000 (later halved to the amount that sprang Billy). At week's end, Daniels, his local cabaret entertainer's card lifted, hopped off to Hollywood. Before he left, he was asked about rumors of a $10,000 hush-hush payoff to the cops. Shrugged Billy, who had been knocking down $10,000 a week at a brassy Manhattan nightclub: "I don't have that kind...