Word: taprooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beyond the storied paneling of Mory's, Yale's favorite taproom where it is traditionally sung, has echoed the old-time Whiffenpoof Song, Yale's Rudy Vallee croons it to radio millions in an arrangement of his own. It rang last week as far away as the primeval redwoods of California's Bohemian Grove, where the annual Jinks of the Bohemian Club were in progress. It also rang in a Manhattan court, where G. Schirmer, Inc. and Miller Music, Inc. were disputing which had the publication rights...
...traveled all night to buy the Britannia's ship's bell was told that Queen Mary is keeping that and it was not for sale. In all, the auction netted close to $5,000. The King's signal flags will be draped in the taproom of an English inn; the 102-ft. solid pine mast is to be the flagpole of a country estate; and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brinton are taking home to South Africa two feather pillows upon which once lay the heads of King George & Queen Mary...
Brewers were most interested last week in two rival cans which raced each other into the market. Taproom champions of the thesis that beer tastes better from kegs than from bottles rarely consider how it would taste from cans. But canmakers have long toyed with the idea. Cans would stack more easily, weigh less, could be thrown away after using. The problem was to devise a lining. By last week American Can and Continental Can both thought they had the solution...
...banquet at which no one made a speech. For five days they haggled over code chiselers, discussed new ideas on designs, talked about cashing in on their backlog. Gravestone sellers all, members of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, they wound up their annual convention in the hotel taproom and went home with schemes for carving out more business from the living and the dead...
Three times in the last 18 months Fritzi Scheff, creator of the title role in Mile Modiste (1905-08), persuaded judges to postpone foreclosure on her thrice-mortgaged cottage & four acres near Waterbury, Conn. She sang for a while in a Broadway taproom in an unsuccessful effort to raise the $1,500 she needed. Last week, day before final foreclosure. Home Owners Loan Corporation took over her mortgage, gave back to Fritzi Scheff her only home...