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...situation in the Mingusville, S. Dak. saloon, that night in 1885, seemed to be stacked against the spectacled dude from the East. A Bad Lands drunkard who had just put a couple of holes in the clock over the bar waved his cocked pistols at the stranger and announced: "Four Eyes is going to set up drinks." Four Eyes paid him no mind, finished warming his hands at the stove, then turned and-as both bullets went wild-knocked the gunman cold with a single punch. After that, Tenderfoot Rancher Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately known around Mingusville as Old Four...
Casablanca has Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains and Sidney Greenstreet and a silly and improbably story about a tough guy saloon keeper who helps the girl he loves--and her husband--to get out from under some polite, choke-collared Nazis...
...veterans' organizations were operating most of the slot machines in Illinois, he threw a handful of lemons at these politically powerful groups. Said he: "I know all the arguments about 'the slot machine in the country club is one thing and the slot machine in the corner saloon another.' But I also know that the machine is against the law as it stands on the books; and I know that the citizen who "violates the law in his country club or fraternal lodge is in no position to, and does not in fact, insist that his elected...
...Illinois. Then, in a speech to the County Bar Association in Springfield, he went on to point a moral considerably more important than slot machines. "I know all the arguments about 'the slot machine in the country club is one thing and the slot machine in the corner saloon another,'" he said. "But I also know that the machine is against the law as it stands on the books; and I know that the citizen who violates the law in his country club or fraternal lodge is in no position to, and does not in fact, insist that...
Scouts Wha Hae. In Juneau, Alaska, the Red Dog saloon ordered another printing of its song sheet (Behind Those Swinging Doors) to replace copies swiped by local Boy Scouts for use at campfire meetings...