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Word: saloon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in 12 years all cross channel ships and airplanes had to suspend service for some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Worst in Decades | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known, not only as an able millionaire, but also as a philanthropist, a reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge's $500,000 gift to the Anti-Saloon League. Accordingly, he was sure that the alleged misbehavior, although it had remained undenied, was merely a hollow defamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Common Kresge | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Last week Young Griffo died. He died in a basement room, where he had lived for ten years an object of Rose Collins' charity. She remembered the lean days long ago when her husband kept a Manhattan saloon and trade was treacherous, until Young Griffo stumbled through the swinging doors and spread his handkerchief. Barflies & roustabouts swarmed to the challenge. Griffo made the Collins fortune. Widow Collins remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Griffo | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...clippings told of brutal, better days when Griffo fought four champions, George Dixon, Kid Lavigne, Jack McAuliffe, Joe Gans. Griffo never met a better fighter except alcohol. On the day of his fight with Dixon for the featherweight championship (Griffo weighed 120) he disappeared; was snatched out of a saloon late in the afternoon; boiled out in a Turkish bath; held Dixon to a desperate draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Griffo | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...next encounter. Again and again he went drunk to the ring; and again and again just failed to crush great champions. In 1897 he made the final botch that removed him from serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved him into a buggy; raced for the arena. A train hit the buggy, killing two. Griffo stumbled into the ring drunk, dazed. The bell rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel, swayed to the centre of the ring, bent down to spread the towel. Tracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Griffo | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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