Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Service men are not much seen in the Cambridge booze paladiums today, for the official edicts frown on bottle-totin' soldiers and sailors. Weekend bar-hanging by men on overnight passes evens things up a bit, however...
...seamed mountains around Leadville, Colo, men hacked millions of dollars of quick wealth for almost two generations. Leadville's ramshackle streets were lined with saloons, dance halls, "wine theaters," brothels. Lucky miners became millionaires overnight, tossed silver dollars at stage girlies in red tights, brawled, gambled, built gingerbread palaces on the hill. Leadville had its ups & downs - gold in the '60s ; silver-rich carbonate ores that made the Carbonate Kings in the '70s; the Little Johnny and other gold-mine workings in the '90s. By 1933, however, most of the zinc, lead and silver mines were...
Editor White's picture of the Democratic convention if Roosevelt declines the nomination: "The greatest show that the party has put on since Madison Square Garden. A thousand men, suddenly free, with their shackles shaken off overnight, are going to put on such a ghost dance as will look like a custard-pie supper in a madhouse...
...Warner's moneymaker in a role he likes and to which he gives everything he has. It introduces to the screen Grace (Kind Lady) George, luminous in a role which should so endear her to U.S. cinemaudiences that she may well become overnight on the screen what she has been for years on Broadway - the official quintessence of elderly? femininity. The film it self is rich nostalgic fare, elegantly dished out, about small-town politics at the turn of the century...
...monsoon rains still poured over Burma, making an offensive in that area impossible for several weeks. Britain's No. 1 amphibious commander would not be able to create his striking force overnight...