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...remember the Southern Turf very well- but the most popular drink emporium in Nashville in my days was Luigart's-across from our Vine street building, where most of us had our own cedar beer mugs kept...
...held under the popular and versatile leadership of Park Commissioner Robert Moses. While preliminary contests of barber shop quartets were held during the summer in five New York boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga...
Depression being what it is in France, this struggling emporium of tourist thrills offers for 150 francs ($10) in the afternoon or 450 francs ($30) in the evening to flog soundly one of its garmentless daughters of joy, first on a certified medieval torture wheel, then on an authentic "Spanish donkey" once used by the Inquisition and finally on a guillotine hitherto of somewhat doubtful authenticity...
...houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma," "Pee-Wee's Place" and the "Echo Pie Emporium" strutted blackamoors with "High Agnes" haircuts, trailed by admiring country cousins. Dicing, dancing and cutting went on hour after hour until the sun once more lit up the tall towers and gleamed on the broad river at Memphis. Thus ended, after 120 hours, the big annual bust of a municipality which...
...which Lionel Barrymore takes a terrific fall in the world from the position he held in Sweepings. In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie. In Looking Forward he is Benton. a miserable bookkeeper in a London emporium named Service's. His employer sacks him for general incompetence and inappropriate geniality. When Benton has retired to his suburban cottage to start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into the family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department...