Word: pub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cakes and ale in June nor even sausages and stout. There is supposed to be pathos, too, in the spectacle of poor, hard-working Juno Boyle slaving away to support her husband, a strutting "paycock" who spends his days carousing with his crony in the pub. But there isn't. The story of Juno's daughter, Mary, who impregnates and then deserts her, raises the possibility that O'Casey is the arrantest disher-up of unrefurbished cliche who ever presumed to deal in "serious" drama. Only in the account of Juno's son, Johnny, the unwilling informer, do O'Casey...
...pub-loving Englishman at heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally...
These boudoir details appeared last week in London's lip-smacking Sunday Pictorial under the byline of William Charles Ellis, 51, boss of a pub in Hertfordshire called the Plough and Dial but, until last November superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. His chatter was the latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend...
...most outrageously great pictures of his generation, is released from Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where he has just spent a month on charges of "uttering menaces"-he had threatened to cut out his patron's liver, or something of the sort. He trots over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face, as Cary expressed it, "as blank as a sanitary brick." But she observes that Guinness is nothing but a "dirty old man," and besides he already owes her four quid nine...
When the Health Center is built on Dunster Street and Cronin opens a new pub, it is sure to have one thing in common with the old one: the proprietor will be a candidate-in-good-standing for membership in the Men's Auxiliary of the W.C.T.U. Jim Cronin has never touched a drop, and probably never will. "When I was a boy they told me something in Latin about moderation. And I haven't been weaned from milk...