Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racketing band music in the lobbies. It was possible to board an elevator in the Bellevue-Stratford without waiting. At 12:30 a.m. on a pre-convention morning, Illinois Delegate "Paddy" Bauler (who once made Chicago history by shooting a cop in the pants during a brawl outside his saloon) stared down the quiet sidewalks of Broad Street and said: 'We got more excitement in the 43rd ward at 11 o'clock in the morning when the guys is all in church." Delegates seemed to flinch at signs which read: ALL 48 IN '48 and KEEP AMERICA...
Like the corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
...Time of Your Life (United Artists) is William Saroyan's rosy look-in on a San Francisco saloon and, in the late Charles Butterworth's enduring phrase, its habitues and sons-of-habitues...
Except in Saroyan's world, barroom philosophers who intrude on new customers with the words "What's the dream?" are seldom answered courteously; and when euphoria enchants any saloon for more than five consecutive minutes, you can expect a quick return of trouble, or boredom, or both. The face on Saroyan's barroom floor has something unassailably good about the eyes. But the smile is that of a swindling parson who is sure his own swindle is for the greater glory...
...believe that so bland and salve-like a substance as oleomargarine could have set off so abrasive a row. As the House debated repeal of federal oleo taxes last week, party lines snapped like serpentin in a gale; the sulphurous debate grew reminiscent of argument in a waterfront saloon. But there was a good reason. Congress holds few subjects more sacred than 1) American womanhood and 2) American cows. Oleo had forced an awful choice between them...