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Captain Jorgensen bellowed across the bar-room to the cook of the Howard.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

He did not mind treating a bar-room of men to whiskey at fifty cents a drink, but there was somewhere in his own extravagant nature a sense of fitness and arithmetic that revolted against paying fifteen dollars for the contents of an oyster can.

Chapter XI 2010

A roster of new acts hoping to export their British brand of music to big-spending audiences across the Atlantic are heading to the Texas city of Austin this week to play their hearts out in bar-room gigs that could help them make it big in America.

South by Southwest festival: Brit bands head to Texas to take US by storm 2011

There was McMann, who ran up a single bar-room bill of thirty-eight thousand dollars; and

Chapter XI 2010

The intrigue, bar-room brawls and court proceedings brought a new dynamic and will have created renewed interest in fashion, she said.

John Galliano scandal puts spark back into Paris fashion week 2011

Neither men nor women need to be infantilised like this, to be spoon-fed the idea that some mildly crude piece of bar-room tat, or weakly smutty pun of a name, is capable of setting them against one another.

Top Totty – a storm in a beer mug | Alex Clark 2012

And he is just as well known as a bar-room brawler as he is a bounty hunter.

Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

Most of the time we are watching Fassbender's sad and lost face – and his O-face, of course – as he joylessly pumps away at his squadrons of hookers and bar-room pick-ups.

Shame is not what you'd call an easy watch 2012

While Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" has seen to it that we no longer believe in goldfish with three-second memory spans or life-threatening quicksand à la "Tarzan," bar-room discussions are still filled with false facts and improbable ideas.

11 Common Myths You Thought Were True 2011

There's little doubt in the reader's mind that one school of journalism deserves rather more mourning than the other; but there is nonetheless room to shed a small tear for the speedily vanishing world of boozy lunches, bar-room brawls and expenses forms that bears more resemblance to the world of fiction than to hard-nosed investigative reportage.

The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review 2011