Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other objections to the sale of alcohol presented by the Square merchants included a marked dislike of converting their places of business into liquor dispensaries, and the impossibility of handling the equipment necessary for operating such a tavern. The owners of one shop avowed too great an affection for Harvard boys to allow them to procure hard liquor in their tavern, thereby harming them. "I'd sooner shoof you than sell you any liquor," the manager said she had remarked to one student, adding that his replay had been, "Sell me the drink first and then shoot...
...blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern. In his fast biplane with a picture of Felix the Cat painted on the side, Pilot Zelcer scored 590 points out of a possible 600 at stunting, won the men's title...
Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...
...when Joseph Jefferson, greatest of all Rips, played it in 1859, the scene when bearded old Rip wakes up after his 20 years' nap, finds that everyone has forgotten him and a picture of George Washington taking King George's place in Nick Yedder's tavern...
...BIRD CAGE-Eimar O'Duffy- Kinsey ($2). Disappearance and murder in an English tavern lead to the killing of an investigator, but the twister is trapped...