Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ring fans were suddenly seized with the idea that civilization itself was threatened by the "Black Man who wore the belt." Johnson, who was disconcertingly tough and disconcertingly outspoken, openly intimated that he was as good, or better than any man who ever lived, and the hysteria grew. Saloon orators cried that Li'l Arthur had a skull an inch thick and drank beer through a straw. What worse could be said...
...Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through a saloon sequence in which he is fed a Mickey Finn, a dream sequence in which he imagines he is a lionhearted medieval knight...
...plot is generally quite simple. A lean, hardfighting ex-officer and eternal gentleman returns to Old Home Town, Texas. Finding that some dam Yankee carpetbagger has cut him out of his job, girl, homestead, and even his favorite place in the saloon, the Forgotten Hero clenches his teeth and waits. He is still waiting and quietly suffering when the girl-snatching Nawthorn rascal injures either his mother (in pictures apologizing for the James boys) or anyone's honor (in all other films of this genre). Then all hell breaks loose with proud victors vanquished, widows revenged, and Yankee misrule giving...
Night Entrance. In Scranton, Pa., after being turned away from a saloon that was closed for the night, Francis J. Mann got in by ramming it twice with his car, thus demolishing 1) the front door, 2) a clutch of cuspidors, 3) half...
Within the past year or so, the OPS office has inhaled and exhaled administrators through it doors almost with the speed of an Old West bar. The murkiness inside those doors also suggests a saloon, for the course of the price and wage stabilization program has been erratic and clouded at best. Congress, in fact, would probably do better by closing it down, temporarily at any rate...