Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week, two men walked into the barroom of the Palace Chop House & Tavern, around the corner from Newark's Robert Treat Hotel. They ordered the bartender to lie down on the floor, keep his mouth shut. Passing down a narrow hall, the pair came to a rear dining room where three other men were seated around a table under an orange light. The two intruders jerked out revolvers, began to blaze away. The door of an adjoining toilet inched open. The gunmen sent one shot through it, turned, ran. The man in the toilet staggered out, made...
...Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, New York City's most notorious racketeer, the nation's most prosperous post-Repeal criminal and the one big hoodlum against whom the U. S. Government could not make income tax charges stick (TIME, Aug. 12, et ante). At the Palace Chop House & Tavern, officers, newshawks and surgeons beheld a sight unparalleled since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman, where he had collapsed after a futile attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard Rosenkrantz, Flegen...
...young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads, put on high collars, white trousers, "dink" caps, and orange-&-black blazers, rolled gaily into Central Park on two tandem bicycles. They sang Ben Jonson's lyric Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. Then they swung through There's a Tavern in the Town which was handsomely embellished with "swipes"?passages in which the first tenor holds the melody while the lower voices move in opposite directions in the scale. For their performance, appearance and deportment the Bay City Four took first prize, four silver shaving mugs. Second and third...
...manages her share of the proceedings with considerable verve and a singing voice that does credit to her family. By a strange turn of affairs, after five reels spent in manipulating the affections of Boles and the checkbook of Walburn, Miss Lee is eating dinner in the very tavern where the thug who stole her boss's negative is bragging about his exploit. Best song: I Found a Dream...
...medicine and a permanent taste for low company." He believed in gnomes, sylvans, sprites, salamanders, macrocosms, microcosms. He knew botany, alchemy. He feared no man and he broke the laws of his profession, his Government and his God. Before he died as the result of being stabbed in a tavern fight, Paracelsus had bullied European doctors into using chemicals in scientific fashion...