Word: taprooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slightly from 1948) and on the behavior of ballplayers (mugging for the cameras). White Sox Manager Jack Onslow talked of fining one of his pitchers for rolling the catcher's return-throw up one arm, across his shoulders and down the other-for the amusement, Onslow thought, of taproom video friends...
...Empty Bed Blues in Chicago in the 1920s, Julia Lee was singing the same kind of songs with the late Benny Moten's band in Kansas City. Count Basie played the piano. During the depression Julia went to work at $12 a week in Milton's Taproom. In the rowdy days of the Pendergast era, Julia sang ribald ditties like Two Old Maids in a Folding Bed and The Fuller Brush Man. But Kansas City is cleaner now, and so are Julia's lyrics. Now she does songs like Stormy Weather and Night...
Older & Soberer. One thing had not returned-the sloppy drinking of the raccoon-coat and hip-flask era. The post-game crowds gathered nostalgically at their favorite spots-Mory's, the Old Heidelberg and Hofbrau in New Haven; the Yankee Doodle Taproom in Princeton; Metzger's and Floutz's in Ann Arbor. But they saw little student shenanigans. Many of Michigan's coeds broke dates with their steadies to go to strictly nonalcoholic parties with some of the 414 West Point cadets who came with the team. In Madison, where more than once in the past...
...taproom of Ye Old Queen Anne's Castle Inn, one of several "oldest hostelries" in the county, Landlord Alfred Sykes drew pint after pint for inquisitive reporters from London, told them of awesome doings. "Last night the church clock turned two hours slow, which never happened before. . . . Then there was old Chipping's rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets...