Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumist Arthur Brisbane most rouses the Notch ire. Brisbane's manner of commenting upon world events is thus described: "Two subway diggers, or two stockbrokers, exhausted by the day's work, stand, half-comatose, at the bar of an old-fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science...
...Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp of the modern night club. It was provided by Messrs. Sidney Easton and Bert Howell, whose trick improvisations on ukulele, violin, and portable organ brought loud applause even from those...
Capone left Chicago just before a lone gangster in his south side district shot to death-three rival gunsters in a-saloon. Capone also left these rumors behind him: 1). His gang and that of George ("Bugs") Moran, his enemy, had merged for friendly and efficient operation of their common rackets; 2) He had gone into the political patronage racket at City Hall in a big way; 3) He had extended his "protective influence" to the building trades and plumbing unions. Newsmen at police headquarters were advised to "lay off Al," on the theory that so much publicity on Capone...
Perfidious Cannon? What really instigated the Lobby Committee's Prohibition investigation were the charges filed with it by Massachusetts Congressman George Holden Tinkham against the Anti-Saloon League, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the political activities of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, April 7). Last week Representative Tinkham appeared before the committee, generalized about the "$67,565,312.72" the Anti-Saloon League had spent, vaguely deplored the failure of politico-religious campaigners to reveal their expenditures under the Corrupt Practice...
...their chosen partners from such incursions, the fraternity has been forced to resort to the employment of a group of noble individuals whose usefulness, a few short years ago, seemed gone forever. These are 'bouncers' of that simple and primitive anti-alcoholic ardor that cleared the saloon of 'bums' when those gentlemen by raucousness or unseemly act impeded normal intellectual discussion or progress of any worthy cause...