Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind them, who played their instruments with loud, emotionless precision. In the darkness out front several hundred listeners crowded around small tables, stood three deep at the bar, or sat in straight-backed chairs in an upholstered bull pen. On the mirror in the far corner of the Royal Roost, foot-high enamel letters spelled out "Metropolitan Bopera House...
...months ago the Royal Chicken Roost was just another basement Broadway joint, specializing in Southern fries. It enjoyed a brief notoriety last December when it offered Margaret Truman $10,000 a week for a personal appearance and was politely refused. A short time later it dropped the "Chicken" and became the country's principal showcase for what its earnest admirers call "progressive" music...
Some of bop's first excesses have already disappeared. Few of the patrons of the Roost now wear "progressive" berets and green-tinted, horn-rimmed glasses. There are only one or two of the tentative little bop beards visible in the Bopera House bleachers, where the most serious followers pay 90? to sit & listen. Whether bop is trash or treasure, it certainly isn't a dud. Last week it was all over Broadway...
Finally the owl came out into view--only to fly away to a less public roost. For the next half hour, Miss Holmes amused a crowd of freshmen and assorted passersby as she strove to get within range of the wily bird...
Meanwhile, students were coming in flocks to peer at the barred owl in his Yard roost. Record attendance at one time is 100, set yesterday morning...