Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milk & Whiskey. John's shaggy white mane and beard, bowing among the perfumed, chattering sea of well-dressed gallerygoers at his show, attracted more attention than his paintings. Roaring with good will, he played the lion for an hour, then ducked out to his favorite den, a pub. The time he has spent in pubs adds up to several of his three-score-&-ten years. For reasons of health John now ' alternates liquor in London with goat's milk in the country, but he much prefers the city drink...
...Marshall Plan aid is bad. Britain does not need it and should reject it. It should rely on itself and the Empire; not on the U.S. and Europe. ("This proud old land," said an Express leader column, "appears in the role of a village drunkard, swaggering in a pub, insisting on standing his round-but never able to pay for the children's milk next morning...
Some London newsmen, foregathered in a Fleet Street pub one day last week, got talking about the great news stories still to be written. Pretty soon they had a list. Their list, in order of importance, as reported by Overseas News Agency: 1) the discovery of Hitler alive, and an exclusive interview with him; 2) an exclusive description of the first scientific creation of living matter with a free will of its own; 3) coverage of the first journey beyond the earth, either to the moon or one of the planets; 4) the re-emergence of Atlantis; 5) the first...
...hatter (he didn't have a penny in the bank and happily ate his own rabbits, stewed, three times a day). But when they discovered that the old gentleman had never seen a movie, they realized that his condition was more serious than they had suspected, and the pub-keeper's daughter rushed Lord Orris off to the nearest movie house. He emerged spellbound, exclaiming: "My dear, it was wonderful! That splendid detective! . . . And those policemen on motorcycles, actually shooting at 60 miles an hour. So clever of them. And the brave man who jumped...
...evenings, Slater and Britten cycled to the local pub to drink beer and play darts. Says Mrs. Slater: "I had to make a rule they should speak to me at mealtimes...