Word: pubbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons were reluctant to give up their little luxuries-weekends at Brighton, afternoons messing about in the rose garden, outings with the children to Kew Gardens or the Zoo, drinks and darts in the pub around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth...
High Street in Oxford has seen some strange sights. One day last week it saw another. Attired in velvet smoking jacket, with an orchid, a lily and a white harebell in his buttonhole, David Burdett, Queen's College undergraduate, paraded up & down in front of the East Gate pub, opposite his college. He was attended by two sandwich men, whose signs read: "Rita is Unfair to David...
David stopped before the pub, posted his sandwich men. To an interested crowd he then read aloud an ode of his own contriving. The ode proclaimed his ardent love for Rita Harvey, barmaid...
Woodrow Wilson made the message pub lic. Five weeks later the U. S. declared war; Zimmermann lost...
Joseph Martin. The leathery little pub lisher of North Attleboro, Mass., his heart long set on the Speakership of the House, last week was still an ideal compromise candidate. Able, shrewd, plain as an old shoe, Joe Martin, 55, is obviously a clearheaded, sobergoing New Englander, as familiar as apples and Biblical proverbs, a man who would bring honest humility to the White House...