Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cocksure and belligerent as a Digger in his favorite pub, Delegate William...
...first big postwar musical, Big Ben; 2) the 125th production by Britain's Flo Ziegfeld, aging (73), arthritic Charles Blake Cochran; 3) a show written by a Member of Parliament-bung-nosed Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, famed as a humorous writer ("A.P.H.") and as a pillar of the pub...
...Ship, an ancient Tudor pub with sawdust on the floor, overlooking the finish line. Publican Gus Foster, an ex-lion tamer, thought some of the old boat-race flavor was missing. He remembered the time he bet his shirt against a lady's blouse-and won. "She took off her blouse right in the public bar," he said. "She was a sport, she was." For 30 years he had rented out window space on The Day, and usually quadrupled his sale of beer and short-order meals...
...once-jampacked pub sat just two tweedy Cambridge men (one without an arm), two half-pint ratings from the Submarine Service, two burly noncoms from the Grenadier Guards. A tipsy ex-Tommy wanted to bet five pounds to four on Oxford and got no takers. A radio blared. Said Gus: "The boat race, it's dying out, that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing...
Whether they liked it or not, London barflys were getting a bit of art with their "swipes" (weak, austerity beer). Four big London brewers, Barclay, Whitbread, Watney, and Courage had combined to make pub-crawling more cultural. In 1944 they commissioned some ?5,000 worth of drawings and watercolors. Last week an installment of the traveling Pub Art Show opened at The Bull in East Shean, in old times the first coaching station out of London to the southwest. Beamed brilliant, bibulous old portraitist Augustus John: "Artists have always supported the brewery industry. Now we are getting a little reciprocity...