Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zurich University Ph.D. He was once a London correspondent for Swiss newspapers, then spent eleven years on Cape Town University's faculty. Communication troubles between South Africa's speakers of English and Afrikaans led him to think about an interlanguage. Later he and Hogben did some motorized pub-crawling from Aberdeen to London and back, planned The Loom between drinks. Bodmer wrote the book in Hogben's Highland croft, is now working on another book in London's intellectual Bloomsbury...
...locale is an old Scottish castle, haunted by one of the central figures of the play, and the town pub, haunt of most of the other characters. The lead, a ghost, in order to enter heaven must convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by his love for the town idiot, Silly, who likes her kisses cold and ghastly. She eventually changes her affections to the young laird, descendant of the ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that...
...Buna campaign a scout, returning to his unit, was asked what he had seen. "Two whorehouses and a pub," he whispered. Shaking with silent laughter (the enemy was so close they could not laugh out loud), his comrades "began to squirm forward to attack the three pillboxes their scout had so engagingly described...
Jumbo was greatly bucked over it. Weeks passed before he found out that the soldiers thought he was telling them about a fabulous pub called "The Golden Fleece" about 300 miles down the road where they would find oceans of beer and tons of dancing girls...
...their camp after an evening well spent in a pub, two Tommies ran into a dark figure...