Word: coffeeshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...
...little man entered the coffeeshop, crowded with delegates to the Pacific Logging Congress, and shouted, "This is a holdup!" No one, least of all the suave staff, paid any attention. Then the bandit kicked over a chair and shouted again: "Don't anyone move!" A few people turned to look in well-bred distaste, then went back to their eating. It was too much for the little man. Waving his pistol desperately in the air, he fired a single embarrassed shot into the ceiling...