Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Return of Peter Grimm, The Music Master, The Merchant of Venice), who through wise investments became one of the world's richest actors; after long illness; in Manhattan. Starting as a theater usher in San Francisco, he went to New York in 1889, first found work as a saloon entertainer, was later starred by famed Producer David Belasco, with whom he had a falling out in 1924, after which he quit the stage...
Whether Thurber's drawing requires psychiatry or not, a great many people, including New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, cannot get enough of it. A series of murals, executed by Thurber years ago in Manhattan for Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon (known to its clientele as "The Chop House of Broken Dreams"), is one of the extracurricular features of the establishment. The late Paul Nash, British painter and art critic, once declared Thurber "a master of impressionistic line," comparing him to the early Matisse...
...after being awarded a National Safety Council medal for two years of safe driving, Truck Driver George Pratt went to a ball game where he drank eight bottles of beer and a slug of whisky, adjourned to a tavern where he tossed down two more beers, headed for another saloon, missed a turn, caromed off a telephone pole, was robbed of his medal, called the cops, was sentenced to ten days...
Producer Lippert keeps his casts and crews hopping like ushers. Once he filmed six westerns simultaneously in 28 days, using the same cast and sets, photographing the same saloon from different angles for each picture, letting the same posse race through six different patches of countryside for the chase scenes. Early in his producing days, he told an interviewer: "I see about ten movies every weekend. Well, I see a movie I like, and we just change legionnaires to frontiersmen and the Arabs to Indians, and we start shooting...
...faithful followers made its way to Medicine Lodge, Kans. (pop. 2,290), to dedicate a brick and frame house as a W.C.T.U. memorial. It was the old home of Carry Nation, and furnished with her original bar-smashing hatchet, the satchel in which she carried bricks to bash in saloon mirrors and glasses, her old rocking chair and desk, and a life-sized portrait of the woman who also once urged Britons to give up their intemperate habit of drinking...