Word: taverner
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Sanctuary. In a Chicago tavern a sign was posted on a slot machine: "In case of an air raid, stand next to this machine. No one has ever...
During the '20s, Cohan produced and acted in The Tavern and The Song and Dance Man, a title which became Cohan's favorite description for himself. He shone again in the '30s as the father-in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and in I'd Rather Be Right, in which he impersonated Franklin Roosevelt. When he went to the White House in 1940 to receive a medal, the President greeted him with: "Well, how's my double...
...Tavern," he said...
From then on, her father fights her, and the romance is saved only by the fact that Love Conquers All and that her father, through a weakness for booze, gets himself corked up in a bottle, trolling tavern songs. When last seen, the happy couple are thoroughly domesticated, but a little daughter, peering from behind a blonde Lake bang, is beginning to show a portentous interest in brooms...
...faithfully carried for twenty-two years with notable increases in wage scales and decreases in amateur competition, he is a popular and useful phenomenon. To musical artists, of whom he has said that there is "no difference between Heifetz playing the fiddle and a fiddler in a tavern," to the non-union Boston Symphony, to the moguls of canned music and juke boxes, and to the record buying public he is an obstinately unpleasant phenomenon...