Word: ales
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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...
...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...
...this year). To wring a profit from its three restaurants in Manhattan's gargantuan new Pan American Building, President and Chief Executive Joseph H. Baum, 44, relied on novel dazzle. Result: the Trattoria's casual dolce vita atmosphere to woo after-theater crowds, Charlie Brown's Ale & Chophouse with a 19th century British menu, and Zum Zum, a sausage and beer bar so successful that Baum plans to expand it into a chain within the chain...
...spokesman for the Hasty Pudding Club said the Certificates will be required "eventually." The Yard of Ale, however, plans no change in its policy of not serving questionable customers at all. "As long as the burden of proof is on the establishment in this state," the manager said, "we won't serve anybody who doesn't look like he's 21, no matter what he's got in his wallet...