Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...
...banks of the Wabash, some 30 miles from Evansville, Indiana, stands New Harmony, an ordinary, none too sprightly town of 1,400 souls, approached by a creaking ferry and boasting a 5-&-io/ store, a saloon or two, and a movie theater. There, some time between 1815 and 1824, an angel descended to the green earth. Many later saw the angel's footprint, embedded in a slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder...
Gould likes to be interviewed, says "I make good copy." Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker treats Gould in "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon" where he spreads the fallacious (says Gould) story that Joe used to go into cafeterias and eat up a couples of bottles of ketchup, not because he liked it but because it was free...
...names, except the younger set." A young fellow, or a small man, was said to be fryin' size. When the cowboy got drunk he liked to have everyone know it - he said he cut his wolf loose. Once four young cowpunchers rode their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer was having a drink. When the drummer complained to the bartender that the horses jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung...
...prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while she was singing in the Gold Strike Saloon in Alaska...