Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before 1932 he was just a member of the Democratic minority in the Senate who had spellbound his colleagues on Drought in 1930. As a member of the House he had helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy himself. Labor knows him as one of its early champions, but he voted for coal and oil tariffs before the New Deal made...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...
...achieved something of a moral victory when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer, as a headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit dough, had been reinstated for no apparent reason three weeks...
...last fortnight the industrious trainers had taught the elephants to run through these capers without a hitch. Then members of Missouri prohibition clubs and the Anti-Saloon League protested, called the act "not very edifying." Few days later the zoo's board of control watched the elephants perform, called the protest "ridiculous." The show went on, drew enthusiastic applause from its first audiences this week...
With the memory of Jeanette MacDonald as the delightfully dangerous flirt of "The Firefly" still fresh in the mind, one finds it exceedingly difficult to see here as the gawky, ignorant saloon keeper of "Girl of the Golden West." In spite of her ragged clothes and her western twang (which miraculously disappears now and then), she is as out of place in her crude surroundings as William Randolph Hearst at a Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good...