Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, where he awaits a Japanese trial for manslaughter, Army Specialist Third Class William Girard, center of a celebrated legal case, sprang himself from Camp Whittington for three hours of AWOL bottling in a Japanese saloon, was placed back under 24-hr, guard when he showed up at camp again...
...when dozens of big U.S. companies clamored for space to peddle or promote their wares, Walt Disney and his businessman brother Roy O. Disney quickly upped their sights, raised millions by leasing plots to 55 companies. Pepsi-Cola came in to operate Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe soft-drink saloon; American Motors Corp. shows Circarama movies; Pablum recently opened a brightly decorated "baby-changing and feeding station" complete with a trained nurse who hands out free disposable diapers, safety pins, bottles...
...favorite saloon Porter was in the habit of gaining the attention of the bartender by calling, "Oh Henry!" One of his buddies suggested "O. Henry" as a good pen name, since he had certainly used it enough...
Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...started seeing things. To Lieut. Commander Bryant W. Line, who does not read Japanese, the stylized dabs and curlicues of the brushwork characters, known as Kanji, conjured up all manner of fanciful situations: poker players in a pup tent, an irate baseball umpire, a boy peering wistfully into a saloon...