Word: salooning
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...morning she blew herself up last July, there were 40 policemen, and no women, on duty at the checkpoint. At 9:30 in the morning, a light-colored Opel Saloon drove to within 100 yards of the checkpoint, dropped off a female passenger and turned back toward Ramadi. The woman was short and stout, wore a billowing black gown known as an abaya, and her face was veiled...
...ballpark is still known as Busch Stadium, though Busch sold the club in 1995.) "A-B brought me to this city, where I married a St. Louis girl, settled down and raised a family," Hrabosky explains. Today, Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob flow abundantly at Al Hrabosky's Ballpark Saloon, and in his role as a Cardinals announcer on Fox Sports, Hrabosky frequently cuts to A-B advertisements...
...bought and knocked down. Tucson Sector also has more paved roads through its desert, making it easier for walkers to reach pickup points. And there are more hamlets along its border. Smuggling is a major part of the local economy in Arizona towns like Naco, where the busiest saloon is decorated with a burlap marijuana sack and a sign for Coyote brand beer. (People who don't know that coyote is slang for a smuggler of illegal aliens won't get the joke, but then those folks have no reason to visit Naco in the first place...
...Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon & Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened. Reservations for tables (and the daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons...
...first Rolls-Royce, BMW opted to resurrect the Phantom - a big saloon limousine that all but begs to be chauffeur-driven. That means targeting the very rich, whose legions around the world are growing fast. Rolls-Royce now wants to increase its market share while still remaining at the price pinnacle. It's introducing in 2008 a hardtop coupe version of the Phantom and launching a smaller, as-yet-unnamed saloon...