Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western standbys have been dragged in; the gun duel in the middle of the streets, the saloon killing, and the fight over fencing up the open range. Perhaps the most overworked angle involved the arrival of the U.S. Cavalry with bright blue uniforms and waving flags to patch things up when a crisis impends. Interspersed among the cliches are a number of bedroom passages involving Jennifer and Gregory, a bunch of mob scenes in the grand old DeMille tradition, and here and there a few small bits of genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there...
...almost like Christmas, that night at Jim Downey's place. The old saloon was decked out in bunting and all the regulars were in, having a singsong. And there was Jim himself passing out creamy pints, on the house, for all the world as if beer was water from the town well. "By the holy," said the men of Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown that was), "if it isn't the birthday of a strike Jim's celebratin', and his place the one that's struck." Outside the pickets paused now & then...
...composing room of the strikebound Philadelphia Record stalked a squad of grim-faced A.F.L. printers. They marched across the street to Rosen's saloon, a hangout for Record workers. In the bar, they walked up to a group of strikers, tossed them the proofs of a statement that was running on Page One. Said one bitter printer: "Well, you guys have finally managed to close the paper...
...went to work for Johnny Torrio, a First Ward vice and bootleg racketeer, running a saloon and brothel (at $75 a week) on South Wabash Avenue. He did his work well. Soon he became Torrio's field general and drill sergeant, and was cut in on a $100,000-a-year profit. Chicago began to hear the newcomer's name. It was Al Capone...
...that I had spent part of the year in writing a book about a Third Avenue bar [Third Avenue, New York; Little, Brown; $2]. This is close, but no cigar; I understand that in reality, my failure to report three times weekly in Tim Costello's Social Register Saloon on Third Avenue, a grogshop sometimes known as the Almanac de Gotha Bar & Grill, was one cause of my dismissal...