Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Domes & Disks. It is a fun fair. Not in the oldfashioned, honky-tonk sense of the word, but as a showcase of entertainment mounted by America's most sophisticated and free-spending entertainers-its captains of industry...
...Club House became a museum, and the last open crap game had to start floating 13 years ago. The United States Hotel became a parking lot and stores, and the Grand Union is now a shopping center, with a supermarket of the same name. Broadway is a honky-tonk jumble of shoeshine stands, rooming houses and has-been hotels...
...Like a latter-day Don Quixote, McCanless lays out his inspired plan to Paco: "We grass-fatten the herd on the trail, and then we sell it at top market. And when it's all over . . . we'll buy each of us a scarlet sweetheart and honky-tonk our tails...
...splendored thing called the Grand Bahama Hotel, where the swimming pool is so large that the lifeguards use a rowboat. Farther south, the so-called Out Islands are becoming more popular with the kind of people for whom Nassau is beginning to seem far too much like a honky-tonk meld of El Morocco, Smalls' Paradise and Fort Lauderdale. Eleuthera has acquired four new hotels, and Harbour Island, a tiny island off Eleuthera's northern tip, has for years attracted socialites from the U.S. as a place for a quiet vacation in the well-managed cluster of cottages...
...ivories in a busy beanery. The servant rises as the master falls: she goes to college and prepares to be a teacher. When they meet again, he is forced to swallow his pride and dissemble his heartburn. With humble irony he asks himself: "Dare a poor blind honky-tonk pianist aspire to marry a beautiful college girl...