Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speeding from Constantinople the famed Simplon-Orient Express picked up a royal saloon car at Bucharest last week, sped across the Balkans toward Paris. At every terminal crowds surged to glimpse Queen Marie of Rumania. During the run across Jugoslavia a second royal car was coupled to the train. Within rode Queen Marie of Jugoslavia who was thus able to visit her royal mother en passant. For a time the spectacle of two "regular royal queens" distracted attention from Prince Nicholas, 23, and Princess Ileana,, 17, of Rumania who accompanied their mother...
...grail for him is a wineglass, empty, upside down. He speaks for Prohibition (sometimes at $100 a speech from the Anti-Saloon League) fanatically,* beautifully,*interminably...
...raddle-faced ruffians glared at each other across a table in a waterfront saloon. The little glasses at their elbows were empty, and a third man, standing over them, asked blandly for a new round of drinks, and took his place at the table. After a whispered conference the bartender was called over. Money changed hands-to each of the ruffians a yellow bill, to the bartender a large wad. And next evening, on a coal barge, or in some lot at the edge of town, the two ruffians met and battered each other with bare fists until...
...Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, returned to London last week from Sandringham. Edward, speeding in a luxurious first class saloon car, knew not that Arthur J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed "red hot" Communist Secretary of the Coal Miners Federation, was riding a few cars behind, in a third class carriage. As the train drew in to Liverpool Street Station, Mr. Cook, facetious, bowed elaborately from his third class window as a cheer echoed for Edward of Wales. Queried "Emperor" Cook of scandalized newsgatherers: "Is this respect for the Prince or for the 'Emperor...
...Chicago courtroom had taught Mr. Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay and ballotbox stuffing in Chicago's grimy wards, he was defied in court five times...