Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great storm arose. Heaven tipped crazily, the long seas towered and swept by. Huddled below decks, the faculty of Novorossiisk University and their families cried out prayers as they were dashed back and forth across the saloon. Ashore there was a famine; here were rocks ahead and stark fear on the faces of the crew...
That bogey of liberty--"business efficiency"--is again stalking the land. Mr. Mencken accuses it of a well-assorted category of crimes. Its dastardly attack on the saloon has multiplied sentimental toasts and bibulous jokes. The Kansan prohibition of public smoking has become a subject of vaudeville humor. But the last and least expected of all its crimes is bound to provoke the usually docile American to revolt, instantaneous and complete...
...great storm arose. Heaven tipped crazily, the long seas towered and swept by. Huddled below decks, the faculty of Novorossiisk University and their families cried out prayers as they were dashed back and forth across the saloon. Ashore there was famine; here were rocks ahead and stark fear on the faces of the crew...
...beside the lady's golden skirt, in big red letters, the list of contributors looked so extraordinary. You had heard all the names before, but for a moment you could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back for the 'Varsity. "Hullo, what are you doing here?" you said, as you read: "Heine, Dumas, Kipling, Gaborian, Tolstoy, de Alarcon, Anatole France, Robert Louis Stevenson...
...know. He disdained school, tramped around the country till his parents indentured him to the captain of a merchant ship for the sum of a shilling a month. He sailed over a great part of the world. In 1902, derelict in Manhattan, he got a job in a saloon serving beer, washing glasses, taking care of the bartender's baby. The poet Yeats encouraged him to write. His works include: The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow in the Bye-Street, Dauber, The Daffodil Fields, Reynard the Fox, Gallipoli (prose), Enslaved...