Beer Hall

Today in Intellectual Property news: copyright law invades the domain of Bavarian beer-hall yodeling. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

The heirs of Karl Ganzer, the Austrian composer of the 63-year-old beer-hall hit which is said to be Europe's most-played folk song, were yesterday successful in their attempts to sue the music publisher Egon Frauenberger, who claimed he had written the song's refrain and therefore had a right to a twelfth of the royalties. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Except for a brief rainbow shower of ribbons and a silly whirl of beer-hall waitresses in dirndls, there is almost no color, and no relation at all to the rest of this Ring. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

It's not as if they're urging blog readers to disrupt campaign stops as a prelude to a beer-hall putsch. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

He stopped in New Hampshire recently to tell a Dartmouth crowd that his enemies were now calling him an anti-Semite, a homophobe, a racist, a sexist, a social fascist and a beer-hall conservative. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2006)

Later they were both imprisoned following the failed beer-hall putsch in Munich. ❋ Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm (2008)

In fiery beer-hall speeches, the Bavarian premier declares support for both Haider and Berlusconi. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At what point did the debates in the House of Commons and the Provincial Legislatures degenerate into beer-hall level cheap personal insults and nasty heckling? ❋ Daveberta (2005)

There was always something of a beer-hall stench in his work, a Runyonesque feeling for diamonds in the gutter. ❋ Als, Hilton (2003)

We went down to the village hotel & bought our tickets & entered the beer-hall, where a crowd of German & Swiss men ❋ Unknown (2003)

He is a big, burly man with a German beer-hall swagger, a matching paunch and an accent that remains thick. ❋ Unknown (2001)

LUSAKA: Enraged troops torched 10 villages, killed two people and bayoneted more than 30 others in a revenge rampage after a soldier was murdered by villagers in a beer-hall brawl, police said. ❋ Unknown (1995)

There were huge demonstrations and women marched right into the beer-halls, attacking the men who dared to come and drink there, and destroying the object of their oppression - the beer-hall itself. ❋ Unknown (1980)