beer-saloon

"Because needer von dem is vert any ding," said the proprietor of a beer-saloon from Germany.

Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory

Farbach -- the same Louie Farbach who long ago had owned a beer-saloon with a little room behind the bar, where a shabby boy sometimes played dominoes and "seven-up" with loafers: not quite the same Louie Farbach, however, in outward circumstance: for he was now the brewer of Farbach

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

The Tocsin did not print the interview it obtained from Louie Farbach -- the same Louie Farbach who long ago had owned a beer-saloon with a little room behind the bar, where a shabby boy sometimes played dominoes and ` ` seven-up '' with loafers: not quite the same Louie Farbach, however, in outward circumstance: for he was now the brewer of Farbach Beer and making Canaan famous.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

She had told the conductor the name of the street at which she wished to get out, and presently she stood in the biting wind at the corner near the beer-saloon, where the sun had once beat down on her so fiercely.

Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1899

That's funny: to play a hymn-tune in front of a beer-saloon.

Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

There were three windows, two in the living-room (which was also kitchen and beer-saloon) and one in the bedroom; that was the whole of the house.

The Zeit-Geist Lily Dougall 1890

They got into a street-car, and were jolted from one mean street to another, till at length Mr. Ramy pulled the conductor's sleeve and they got out again; then they stood in the blazing sun, near the door of a crowded beer-saloon, waiting for another car to come; and that carried them out to a thinly settled district, past vacant lots and narrow brick houses standing in unsupported solitude, till they finally reached an almost rural region of scattered cottages and low wooden buildings that looked like village "stores."

Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1899

One night he travelled five miles through mud and rain to address an organization of tax-payers, and found them assembled before the long mahogany counter of a beer-saloon, which was the "Hall" they had secured for the reception of the idol of their hopes; and among them it is safe to say there was not one who ever saw a tax-bill, and not many who knew more about those luxuries of life than the delicious flunky, immortalized by Mr. Punch, who says to a brother flunky, "I say, Tummas, wot is taxes?"

The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life John Kendrick Bangs 1892

And greatly surprised would that honest old gentleman have been to know that the presence of that little group of poets and humorists attracted as much custom to good Mr. Pfaff's beer-saloon as did his fresh, cool lager; and that young men, and, for the matter of that, men not so young, stole in there to listen to their contests of wit, and to wish and yearn and aspire to be of their goodly company.

Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier 1875

Putting them on the piazza steps, she says, looks ostentatious, and suggests a beer-saloon or a road-house. "

The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life John Kendrick Bangs 1892