Word: salooners
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...because they are custom-made to carry the star. Too often, however, the star winds up carrying the vehicle, and sometimes, as in the case of a comedy called The Big Heist, even such broad shoulders as Bert Lahr's cannot carry it as far as the corner saloon. Written with an eye on Damon Runyon and a finger in a dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored...
While staffers downed farewell toasts of ouzo, a high-octane Athenian absinthe dispensed by the saloon next door to the old building, Sun-Times management rolled up its sleeves for a long-awaited scrap. Restricted to 96-page press runs by inadequate mechanical facilities in the old building, ailing Marshall Field Jr.'s fast-rising Sun-Times had to turn away advertisers 14 days last year, once had to forgo 17 pages of ads. The new presses, capable of turning out 128-page papers, will also allow the Sun-Times to go all out for the added circulation...
...writers, children and other odd characters who knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter, but like the work of his own "sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty should deal only with New York Irishmen. Even when he went back "to where I had never been," i.e., to Ireland, he found that to his ears Gaelic sounded like Yiddish; and that...
...Girl Scout Age. This saloon McNulty celebrated and helped make famous -until it became blighted by literary admen: "Nobody goes there any more; it's too crowded." And, not far from Costello's, in the heartland of McNulty's world, half a block of stores has recently been razed to make room for the cleanly headquarters of the Girl Scouts of America, who will have no difficulty at all in identifying the trees. It is all very sad, but McNulty's work remains to lighten the loss. His art was as well-hidden and as obvious...
sour-beer artist: one who writes Christmas greetings on saloon mirrors with sour beer...