Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the doors of the Colonial waterfront saloon in Buenos Aires wandered sea-weary Allied seamen whose nerves twitched from the strain of dodging torpedoes on the stormy Atlantic. The patrón, John Jacob Napp, was obliging, forever setting up drinks on the house and volunteering those bits of information and guidance so prized by sailors in strange ports. Napp was a good listener, too, and sometimes the seamen talked...
...waiting room. When a patient came in "who looked as though he had cleaned his teeth with his elbow," Dr. Kennedy told him about toothbrushes and not to come back for treatment until he had used one. The Doctor's hardest cases were the shattered mouths of saloon brawlers...
...hawker of sensations. In late years it was a rare sight to see the red-faced Scot walk with his heavy cane into the lobby of the Imperial Hotel and sit down with the rumor factors there. He never rushed down to Yokohama to find a friend in the saloon of a luxury liner and ask him to smuggle out an item that would burn up the mails. He always quoted sources, never "informed circles." The only ruse of which he was guilty while he was in Japan was the one by which he got his voluminous files...
...talks little ("Speechmaking is no good, only gets you in trouble; I allus left that to John"), but he has a lot to think about. Before the great fire in 1871, he had a newsstand at Madison and Dearborn. Soon he had enough money to open a saloon near the Business Man's Exchange, south of Van Buren street-it had "the longest bar in the world." For a nickel The Hink sold schooners as big as buckets to bums, roustabouts, prostitutes. They could always put the bite on him for two bits; he let the bums sleep...
Spoilers is renowned for its long, concluding brawl between villain and hero. The current version (Wayne v. Scott) is a beaut. It begins in Cherry's overstuffed quarters on the saloon's second floor, ranges round the balcony, down to the barroom, smashing everything in sight, continues out through the front window into the street. When it is finally over, Sourdough Harry Carey pulls the hero together and chides: "That's enough now; come...