Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deduct National Guard fees, graft money, expenses of lobbying for legalized horse racing, contributions to birth-control or anti-saloon leagues; nor can you deduct money spent in preparation of your income tax return...
...used to be said in Dublin that if you threw a stone through a saloon window, you would be sure to hit a poet," James H. Delargy, Director of the Irish Folklore Commission, told a packed audience of Bostonians and Harvard undergraduates in the New Lecture Hall last night. He lectured under the auspices of the Department of Anthropology...
Painter Haeberle's two masterpieces, Changes of Time and Grandma's Hearth, were bought by Detroiters at the Detroit Exposition of 1889. After a few years, both ended up in the gentlemen's art gallery of Churchill's Saloon on Woodward Avenue. Changes of Time outlasted Churchill's as a cherished possession of Distiller Marvin Preston. It got its poignancy from the fact that it displayed, in minute detail, almost every form of U. S. currency from 1776 to 1886. Old Mr. Preston would never let it go, even when the late John F. Dodge...
Publisher Roy Howard of the New York World-Telegram was delighted last week by a rowdy little cartoon turned out by his staff artist. Matt Greene. It seemed that the night before in a Third Avenue saloon one John Jones had taken on several other customers, wound up on the floor. Somehow a Miss Lucille Iorio had landed on the floor too, and Mr. Jones proceeded to bite her calf. The bartender then went into action and by the time the police arrived to take Mr. Jones to a psychiatric ward, order prevailed. Having no photograph of the man biting...
...universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels, a ceaseless round of weddings and funerals, his puppy loves-the period...