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- noun Plural form of
saloonkeeper .
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Examples
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Some of the saloonkeepers are my best friends, and I don't mind goin 'into a saloon any day with my friends.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, saloonkeepers had become subsidized servants of the institutions that paid for everything: the breweries themselves.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, saloonkeepers had become subsidized servants of the institutions that paid for everything: the breweries themselves.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The most audacious explanation came from the officer who said he had lent money to grateful saloonkeepers who had then died, leaving generous bequests in their wills.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Down the road in Washington Court House, the gutters ran with liquor decanted by repentant saloonkeepers.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Down the road in Washington Court House, the gutters ran with liquor decanted by repentant saloonkeepers.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Police Chief Clay Williams supplemented his twenty-man police force with as many trustworthy able-bodied men as he could deputize and tried to prevail upon saloonkeepers and liquor store owners to shut down at least for a few days.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The most audacious explanation came from the officer who said he had lent money to grateful saloonkeepers who had then died, leaving generous bequests in their wills.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The 1849 gold rush had temporarily emptied the city, as San Franciscans joined the manic exodus to the nearby goldfields, but the streets quickly filled up again with bankers, shippers, merchants, and saloonkeepers, all dedicated to helping the Forty-niners alternately save, spend, lose, or waste their hard-earned riches.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Police Chief Clay Williams supplemented his twenty-man police force with as many trustworthy able-bodied men as he could deputize and tried to prevail upon saloonkeepers and liquor store owners to shut down at least for a few days.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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