Word: barman
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...Coaxed into checking the cane, he lunged at the wine steward's cordial tray, then his neck chain, caught a sharp elbow in the stomach in return. Zantzinger had two double bourbons with his steak; Jane Zantzinger, four double Cutty Sarks with her prime ribs. When the head barman refused to serve more, Jane hopped to another table, sipped from the glasses of its surprised occupants. Zantzinger left no tip for the waitress...
...Valet McGowan today works as a barman in Liverpool. On his showing, it could be gathered that any man who says a harsh word against his guv'nor will get a very short beer...
...York on November 6, four days after its author's thirty-first birthday. He could still pass for an undergraduate, showing up for a drink in a herringbone tweed jacket, button-down shirt, and dark slacks: a slightly-built undergraduate with an impressively thick Southern accent. Surprisingly, the barman neglects to ask for his draft card...
...Barman's Holiday. In Paterson, N.J., returning to her tavern after a month's vacation, Mrs. Arlene Bassano discovered that Manager Robert Cunningham had given away or downed its entire $700 stock, was under treatment at a center for alcoholics...
Before dawn, some 400 Mau Mau came out of their strongholds to fight in the open. They first raided the white man's clubhouse at Thika, 34 miles northeast of Nairobi. They dragged out the African barman and slashed him to bits with their sharp pangas; they tore up a picture of Sir Winston Churchill, downed all the mineral water in the bar, and made off towards the police post at Kandara, 16 miles away. At 9:30 a.m. they confidently attacked the post in bright sunshine−but the British were ready and waiting. A relieving column...