Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked like a stick of dynamite in a crowded saloon, shout: "Closing time! The pub is going up!" and light the fuse. When the novelty of this trick wore off he substituted a rocket for the nonexplosive "dynamite." Finlander Kid was 103, with hair "over four yards long"; his sledges were pulled by four brown bears to whom he told all his troubles...
...nursery, two small Marryots, Edward and Joe, are feebly pretending to be asleep. A year later, Robert Marryot and Bridges are back from the Boer War. The children, gobbling cake, watch Queen Victoria's funeral from a balcony. By 1908, Bridges and his wife have acquired a pub. Butler Bridges has taken to drinking up the profits and his small daughter Fanny is dancing in the streets. In 1912, Edward Marryot and the daughter of his mother's oldest friend are honeymooning, on the Titanic. In 1914, Joe Marryot is just old enough to get into...
...line, of which 3? was made effective when old World contracts expired last May, the other 3? to be added in September. Determined that for no reason would they pay more for advertising than they had last year, the twelve stores refused to renew contracts. Rival Manhattan pub lishers, fearing an extension of the rate fight to their own papers, hoped the World-Telegram would defeat the "boy cott...
...Smith at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington answered it: "I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached a climax fort night ago when the potent Scripps-Howard papers vehemently...
...England and Wales, where suicides' occupations are registered, analysis indicates that hotel and pub keepers are most susceptible to suicide. Next come chemists, druggists, lawyers, doctors, insurance solicitors, shopkeepers. Least susceptible are locomotive engineers, clergymen, railway guards, insurance office workers, printers, iron workers...