Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hush spread along the bar of Jack Bleeck's saloon, adjoining the New York Herald Tribune. Lounging newshawks put down their highball glasses, stared incredulously at their boss. He was obliged to repeat himself...
...Otto Van Derck was taken in by two notable persons. Dave Barry was the notorious long-count referee of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1927. Lately he has been running a saloon on Chicago's West Madison Street three blocks from Clerk Van Derck's bank. At Amalgamated Dave Barry kept a joint account with Joseph Baiata, a onetime barber who is supposed to have taught Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo...
Messrs. Barry & Baiata often overdrew their joint account at Van Derck's bank but always they made good ? until last April. Then one day Baiata invited Van Derck to drop by the Barry saloon for a friendly beer. Barry & Baiata explained that the saloon had just been redecorated and $172 was due the contractor. Would Van Derck honor a check for that amount until the brewery, as was customary, reimbursed them for the redecorating? Van Derck, to oblige, doctored Ledger...
Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Arthur ("Battling Charlie") Nelson, 44, bishop of Long Island in the United Christian Church of America (577 members); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Long Island City. Son of a Long Island City saloon keeper, he entered the prize ring, quit it when an opponent frightened him by remaining long unconscious after being felled...
...artist turned successful hack. Superbly staged by Kenneth MacKenna's brother, Jo Mielziner; superbly acted by the biggest cast seen in a legitimate Broadway production this season, Merrily We Roll Along is an amusing and affecting study of interesting peewees, ornamented brightly by cartoons of genuine saloon celebrities and honest wisecracks. Asked if he has the morning paper Jonathan Crale becomes indignant. "I don't take a morning paper," he snarls. "Does Hearst buy my paintings...