Word: saloon
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...hawker of sensations. In late years it was a rare sight to see the red-faced Scot walk with his heavy cane into the lobby of the Imperial Hotel and sit down with the rumor factors there. He never rushed down to Yokohama to find a friend in the saloon of a luxury liner and ask him to smuggle out an item that would burn up the mails. He always quoted sources, never "informed circles." The only ruse of which he was guilty while he was in Japan was the one by which he got his voluminous files...
...talks little ("Speechmaking is no good, only gets you in trouble; I allus left that to John"), but he has a lot to think about. Before the great fire in 1871, he had a newsstand at Madison and Dearborn. Soon he had enough money to open a saloon near the Business Man's Exchange, south of Van Buren street-it had "the longest bar in the world." For a nickel The Hink sold schooners as big as buckets to bums, roustabouts, prostitutes. They could always put the bite on him for two bits; he let the bums sleep...
This time it's strong John Wayne, who owns the gold mine, v. Randolph Scott, who doesn't but wants to, with slinky Marlene Dietrich in the background, always ready with a knife or a hard word. As Cherry Malotte, proprietor of Nome's Great Northern saloon, she is back in her Destry Rides Again role −a Bad Girl with a nugget heart...
Spoilers is renowned for its long, concluding brawl between villain and hero. The current version (Wayne v. Scott) is a beaut. It begins in Cherry's overstuffed quarters on the saloon's second floor, ranges round the balcony, down to the barroom, smashing everything in sight, continues out through the front window into the street. When it is finally over, Sourdough Harry Carey pulls the hero together and chides: "That's enough now; come...
Explained Newark, N.J.'s famed Medical Examiner Harrison Martland: Margaret, apparently healthy, had a disturbance of the pituitary gland, one of the main regulators of water balance. While her sister and brother who also played saloon were able to excrete large quantities of water normally, Margaret's lungs became waterlogged, her blood diluted, her heart paralyzed...