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...secluded herself in a wing of the White House, where she puffed away sulkily on a corncob pipe for the duration of his Administration. Mrs. U. S. Grant put so many tassels and hunks of ornate furniture in the East Room that people said it looked like a steamboat saloon; yet she was idolized as a model of high style. Despite the fact that she was cross-eyed, she refused to undergo a corrective operation because her husband liked her that...
...Mike." The family name was originally Goldwasser, and it belonged to Barry's grandfather, a Polish Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1852. "Big Mike" first ran a saloon and general store in Sonora, Calif., eventually moved on to the Arizona Territory, where he peddled supplies to mining camps and took his chances in the wild country. He managed to survive-though an Indian once put a rifle ball through his hat-to establish a thriving retail clothing business...
...them all--probably because they all appeared in The Gunfight at Dry Gulch on the late show the other night. Lancey is The Fastest Gun in the West. The knot of poker dilettantes who watch The Game are the drunks who scamper out the door of the Golden Horseshoe Saloon before the showdown gunfight...
...late 1800s, long lines formed outside saloons all over New York City. But the queuers were not thirsty; they were there to be naturalized, a process that Irish-controlled Tammany Hall had made easy. Inside the saloon, everybody was handed a red card stating: "Please naturalize the bearer." Card in hand, the bearer went to court, where Tammany judges naturalized as many as 150 at a time. Tests were unheard...
Some revered anthems began as jokes -for example, The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You, born in 1903 when Carry Nation visited Austin to smash up a saloon near the University of Texas. Warning his lads not to "cheer this poor deluded woman," President William L. Prather begged them to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you." In barely two years, the resulting gag song (to I've Been Working on the Railroad) was sufficiently solemnized to be sung at Prather's funeral...