Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual Miles River Regatta, held off St. Michaels, a crabbing port on Maryland's Eastern Shore, is as plain as an old scow. Yachtsmen have been known to row up to the dock in their underwear, wander into the best pub in town wearing pajama pants and a battered silk hat. Ashore, some 5,000 folks loll around in shirt sleeves, suck Popsicles, guzzle beer, chase small fry who get lost in the crowd...
...real backbone of the Labor Party is the anonymous heroine who says to her neighbor: "Can't come to the pictures-I'm going to a meeting," or the hero who tells "his pals in the pub": "Shan't be seeing you for a week or so-we've got a membership drive...
...policemen John dug into the basement, slithered through a four-foot flood of paint, dodged arcing electric wires. On doors they hauled ten workmen into the street, six alive. As they were carrying the last one away the building shuddered and fell. Then John Thomas Cain went to a pub and had a beer...
...food-&-fun palace as "the saloon," but it is a red, white & blue giant, seating 3,700, employing 190 waitresses, 100 entertainers in the show and two dance bands (Jack Denny's & Johnny Gilbert's), 25 barkeeps at a 400-foot balcony-bar. Todd runs this monstrous pub on the principle of low prices and big volume. He charges 50? admission, offers dinners from 75? up, a champagne cocktail for 25?. His publicity boasts that he makes the quarter-of-a-dollar "the largest single unit of entertainment buying power in the entire history of the show business...
...Pont workers might tipple in Charles-town's pub, but drinking within the company's property limits was taboo. Finding an empty whiskey powdered it, bottle, Du matched the Pont sleuths fingerprints on it with reportedly a set in the company files, discharged the guilty worker...