Word: barmaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...
Ashenden was a boy when he first met Drimeld, then a struggling author, and Rosie, his beautiful barmaid wife. When the Driffields "shot the moon" (left town without paying their debts J, Ashenden thought he would never see them again. But years later, while a medical student in London, he met Rosie on the street, went home with her to tea, became an habitue of the Drimeld salon. Rosie was the chief attraction. Kindhearted, affectionate, she became Ashenden's mistress, but he knew he shared her with others. One day she ran off to the U. S. with a married...
...Coats legend: Once, after a night's play in a Paris circle (gaming club) Gambler Coats broke the bank, tipped the barmaid who had wished him luck a round half million francs...