Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount) contains a quality almost unique in U. S. cinema, a quality which can perhaps be suggested by the fact that its climax is reached when the hero, the apotheosis of all fictitious butlers, recites Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the back room of the principal saloon of Red Gap, Washington. Ruggles (Charles Laughton) is sitting at a table with his erratic master, Egbert Froud, and he is facing the crisis of his life. Six months before, he was valet to a British peer who lost him, in a game of draw poker, to the first family...
Last week Pilot Joe Kirton, his resignation in, got ready to make his last flight for Hillman Saloon Coaches & Airways Co. (London-Paris). Presently two girls who had been pacing back & forth at Stapleford Airdrome boarded his plane. They sucked nervously at cigarets. Said one: "Darling, wouldn't John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin...
...Skagway became the port of entry for the trek up over White Pass toward sudden wealth. Friends warned Soapy Alaska would be a tough proposition, but to Soapy it looked like his big chance. With his time-tested crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy...
...year guarded its net throughout the longest hockey game on record (2 hr., 44 min.) which the Maple Leafs won, 1-to-0. Last year he played for the Montreal Canadiens. Before this season started he and three hockey-player friends went on a fishing trip. In a village saloon, one of them picked up a paper which contained the news that Chabot had been traded to the Black Hawks...
...that people go to teas, and stand up all through them. You can't talk well standing up, he says, which just goes to show that he's never met Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson or One-Eyed Connolly, or never stood up in a pre-war saloon, where conversation was practically rampant...