Word: alee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loves to discover things--anything; he collects new skills the way some people collect matchbook covers. He is the Ballantine Ale Man, a man whose smile is an expression of self-content and yet an acknowledgement of just how much there is left to do. He is the Man from the Marlboro Country--in black loafers instead of boots and straddling a seat in Widener, not a pinto on the lone prairie...
There's no mistaking it. The name is engraved on the facade, there's a huge framed picture of Sir Winston inside (Lady Churchill permitted use of the name), and a Watney's ale truck draws up regularly to replenish the draft. Inside, the effect is super-lush, with deep red plush seats, red-globed lamps, lots of traditional dark wood and highly polished brass fixtures. "Of course it's not a real pub. It's a parody of a pub for the French bourgeoisie," says a bearded Bait called Slavik, sipping his Old Forester...
...Winston, the fare with the Watney's ale runs more to "the real English breakfast" (porridge, bacon and eggs), but it is being downed enthusiastically from 8 a.m. opening until 3 a.m., and pub-crawling is becoming all the rage. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford authorized their name and crest for the Bedford Arms, which opens next week; Slavik himself is planning two more pubs, one Cairo style, the other à la Singapore. "They will be much more crazy," he promises gleefully. "I don't want to be reasonable any more...
...like a bum, drank like a culvert, smoked like an ad for cancer, bragged that he was addicted to onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman who was willing, subsisted largely on a diet of ice cream sodas mixed with ale instead of seltzer, and all the while belabored the general ear with wild and wonderful hwyl, as the Welsh call eloquence...
...colleagues. "I am sure the Senator has heard about the schoolteacher who said, 'Johnny, how do you spell straight?' Johnny replied, 'S-t-r-a-i-g-h-t.' The teacher said, 'What does that mean?' ; Johnny answered, 'Without ginger ale...