Word: boars
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Instant Nostalgia. In most cases the results are decor-thin imitations, with euphonious Olde English names, a few Tiffany lamp shades, perhaps a portrait of Churchill or a boar's-bristle dart board that no one knows...
Bowling on the Green. Other pub owners have gone all out for authenticity. Before opening the Blue Boar in Los Angeles' fashionable restaurant row on La Cienega, Bernard G. Tohl and his wife spent months researching historic pubs in London, copied the best features of 100 of them in the Boar...
...chief of Hitler's high command was neither a Prussian nor a very convincing "war criminal." Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
...notion that the diplomat's life abroad is cushioned by platoons of perfectly trained servants, Villard lays it to rest by describing the time that a West African houseboy was shown how to garnish a wild boar for an important dinner. "Consternation reigned," says Villard, "when the dish was triumphantly brought in, apple clenched firmly between the houseboy's teeth, parsley protruding from his nose...
...lemon soap. Guests can also expect good New England cooking in the dining room (lobster pie, clam chowder, homemade bread, Indian pudding) and special celebrations on Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, and the twelve days of Christmas, when several Treadways feature a boar's head, suckling pig and medieval carolers. Yet Treadway, where it counts, is very much up-to-date: the ten-story Treadway Inn at Niagara Falls (see MODERN LIVING) is an all-electric motel in which desk clerks manipulate individual room temperatures to suit guests as they check...