Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumphs in Norway, would have meant that the admirals yielded an inch or so in the hot controversy between sea and air power. Naval officers in Washington privately suggested that Mr. Edison was a bit of an ignoramus. Charles Edison was glad enough to turn his portfolio over to Pub lisher Frank Knox and get elected Governor of New Jersey...
...Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs last week that Prime Minister Churchill was missing any political busses...
...worst, was not the only civilian hazard. When the poor lost their homes, they lost every thing. When factories were bombed they lost next to everything - their jobs. Cer tain occupations, such as dancing in cho ruses and picking up men on street corners, were completely bombed out. Pub owners lost most of their business. Luxury shops did no selling. Crime, or at least its detection, took a holiday: for the first time in the memory of living men the Bow Street Police Court booked no charges for a whole...
Perhaps the most straight-forward of all the Advocate's offerings, "The Little Sins," may prove the most useful, especially to Freshmen. It is a rambling but well written and enjoyable description of the paths that may take the newcomer in Cambridge from Puritanism to Pub. Many of the suggestions are well worth following--by anyone...
With prices from a shilling (20?) to three-and-six (70?), the Philharmonic tour brought out working folk in swarms. In Manchester, the inevitable man-in-the-pub exclaimed: "It's made me find out I'm a bloody high-brow...