Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried. One bride, Minette ("Mickey") Bowen, 20, who had persuaded her husband to join her in England, could hardly wait to get back to her shabby home with her parents in London's slummy, dreary East End. She told reporters that she had missed the English pub ("Even a lemonade tastes better in a pub") and cuddling up to her mother in bed at night...
...London Sam Boal had taken her to the King's birthday party (though he hadn't been able to get her an invitation), stood beside her in slow-moving shopping queues, spent hours with her at her corner pub...
When a timid young stranger flops down, "destroyed from walking," in a County Mayo pub and confesses that he has murdered his father in some far place, all the young women in the neighborhood find him superbly glamorous; indeed, the publican's daughter Pegeen is ready to throw over her commonplace swain to marry him. Fired by all this adulation, mousy Christopher Mahon (Burgess Meredith) begins to see himself as a lion, cops all the prizes in a sports contest, becomes a very chesty...
Advertisement. Near Olympia, Wash., the "Fun in the Sun" nudist camp expelled a female member who pub-crawled between sessions, livened things up by handing out photographs of herself in the nude...
...eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help the Poor Struggler") and to chicken farming...