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...Inflation. I bought him a drink, then three more, at Frank's tavern, and he told me how tough things were these days along Skid Row. "It's the inflation," he said, "a guy can't make a living on the bum any more. You gotta have 15 to 20 bucks a week. Used to be you could walk into the Shamrock and lay down 11? and the barkeep would pour you two stiff shots of rye. Now it costs you 20? a single shot at Frank's or Jack's or the House...
...Translating theory into action, A.V.C. members picketed a tavern which refused to serve two Negro veterans, had the proprietor arrested for violation of the Iowa state civil-rights law on charges backed by onetime Willkie-man Oren Root Jr. Next day, the New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. drafted a full-page ad complimenting the city of Des Moines on prompt police action...
...business was mapping out her spring teaching schedule at Long Island City's William Cullen Bryant high school. The telephone rang. An excited relative reported that the name "Riblet" had just been used (as the name of a schoolmarm just like Miss Riblet) on the Duffy's Tavern program (NBC, Fri., 8:30-9 p.m., E.S.T.). But even worse, Ed Gardner, who portrays Archie and makes insult his profitable stock in trade, had slurringly called this character "Old Pianolegs...
...comparison was obvious and presumably intended. Just as Bunyan's "Christian" wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...
Author Bill's Richmond swarms with society belles, refugees from the overrun plantations, speculators, spies, politicians, soldiers, officers, the dead, the dying. Here is the young Stonewall Jackson, speaking in a high, piping voice. Here is Cavalry General Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, brought to Richmond to die in a city too poor and gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits...