Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool. Startled was he when his rod bent double as a bigger, a monster fish struck the other fly, knocking the first trout free. Alarmed was he when suddenly a big, mossy-horned buck deer came out of the brush, walked into the river and started shoving Pub lisher Bonfils into deep water. Delighted was he when his host shooed the deer away and he climbed out of the stream 45 min. later with a 7¼ Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover...
...stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise and nonsense, music and merrymaking...
Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...
Federal Judge John M. Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill...
...Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...