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Word: trocadero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit. "We've carried good customers up to $600 before in strike times," says David Howard, a grocer in Masontown, Pa., "and we'll do it again, just as long as we possibly can." Bars are doing brisker business than before. Remarks Tilly Bohan, manager of the Trocadero in Masontown: "They say miners come into this world poor and go out poor, but I never saw the day that, strike or no strike, a miner couldn't come up with money for a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: But Life Can Be Cruel | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...month, his men picked up 61 teen-agers on charges ranging from auto theft to narcotics violations. Most of the arrests are made in the new discos and coffee shops, many appealing to homosexuals, that have filled the entertainment vacuum left after the demise of such nightclubs as the Trocadero and the Mocambo. Hickman speaks with contempt of the masochists who keep repeating, as policemen handcuff them, "I love it, I love it." Says he: "Our policemen feel they are taking part in a perverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...does Tryon stint on nostalgia. Skillfully he conjures up the well-nigh irresistible grandeur that prewar Hollywood displayed to the world when "people were driven by their liveried chauffeurs in Duesenbergs . . . when polo matches were played at Will Rogers' ranch and Gable danced with Lombard at the Trocadero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Stardust Malady | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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