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...will be all right," said the driver. "I will go over to the Hospital Miguel Couto and have them look at the wound." He looked again at the sandpile. "Without even a lantern," he sighed...
Sometimes he had to lead his horse by lantern light over muddy mountain trails. When autos came along, he bought a Reo, which ran sometimes, but "mostly I just cranked and cranked at the damn thing and then went and hitched up the horse." He was also the company doctor. During the bitter 1910 Colorado coal strike, miners stoned his children. Doc sent his family to Denver, strapped a six-shooter on his hip, grimly made his rounds...
...first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
...Edith Morell, one of the first Jewish entertainers to make a postwar hit. Her audience, which had followed her from the Femina Club to the Kabarett der Komiker, heard her intone: "Come back, come back, I am waiting for you, for you are my happiness" and "Under the red lantern of St. Pauli [in Hamburg's famed red-light district] my girl stands waiting...
Among venerable establishments like the Three Hussars, the Crooked Lantern and Aunt Resi's, Broadwayish nightclubs sprouted. Racily named Esquire, Zebra and Heidebo, they offered in neat, cultural synthesis U.S.-style jazz and Viennese-style wine (instead of hard liquor...