Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycles, when obtainable, cost $400. A 1941 Ford sedan sells for $5,000. Nor are the prices in the restaurants and honky-tonk nightclubs any lower: $5 for a small drink of U.S. whiskey...
...Mark W. Clark, trim, white-haired, publicity-wise wife of Lieut. General Mark Clark, expressed a wish to be "even a honky-tonk dancer" as a sure-fire passport for overseas service, sighed: "But I haven't got glamor...
Because piano tuning is a craft requiring great patience, tuners are apt to be dignified men who take great pride in their workmanship. Most of them also pride themselves on a calm, philosophical attitude toward life. A tuner must be able to move smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with...
...seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
Thus was inaugurated the country's largest wartime merchant marine training school: $14,000,000 worth of plant and equipment spread over 310 acres of what once was a honky-tonk amusement park, Manhattan Beach. The training school is geared to turn out 40,000 basically-trained sailors a year...