Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bellairs & friends once borrowed the corpse of a Chinese from the morgue, took it to a saloon, ordered plenty of drinks, left the Chinese to pay the bill. The bartender shook the Chinese to awaken him, knocked him down, tried desperately to hide the body while Bellairs & Co., peering through the window, howled with ribald glee...
...name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor man's implement; you can fight with it or work with it." When he was ordered never again to publish a political paper in Missouri he moved The Pitchfork to Dallas. Its first office was over a saloon, so that the editor never had to go far for his news...
Died. Oklahoma Jim Moore, 87, old-time Indian fighter, lately technical adviser for Hollywood horse operas; in Strongsville, Ohio. Bearded, long-maned Oklahoma Jim was believed to be the last surviving eyewitness to the shooting of Wild Bill Hickock in a Deadwood, S. D. saloon...
...roughhouse brawl. They hit with the backs of their gloves, they hit below the belt, they hit after the bell. They spat blood, dripped blood, slobbered blood. It was the sort of fight a reputable U. S. citizen would be horrified to see in a waterfront saloon. Yet last week this primitive performance was billed as a top-notch heavyweight boxing match-staged in New York's Yankee Stadium to select a September challenger for the world's championship. And 18,000 presumably reputable U. S. citizens paid up to $11.50 a seat to watch...
...real-estate transfers amounted to $31,000,000. It was also corrupt: by 1911 the income of 370 houses of prostitution amounted to $17,760,000 annually. Now the brilliantly lighted "Arcade," that in 1907 housed 300 girls, is closed. In the back room of the Budweiser Saloon on Douglas Street, tough Tom Dennison bossed city politics, fought Mayor Ed Smith, won after Smith had been half-killed trying to stop a lynching...