Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malachy's Miracle, wherein a simple, dumpy little priest, taking literally the pronouncement that faith can move mountains, effects extraordinary miracles to the consternation of Christendom. Author Hampson, emerging from a background of sports and the theatre, is remembered for his lively and dramatic tale about an English pub, Saturday Night at the Greyhound...
...Passed 101-to-67 through second reading, with every chance of its swift enactment on third reading, the bill standardizing "pub" hours throughout Great Britain...
...discussing his philanthropies with him not long ago Publisher Curtis remarked cryp- tically: "When I die my friends will be surprised at the size of my fortune." That surprise remained unsprung last week when the Curtis will was filed. His personal estate and his income from his pub- lications he left to his daughter, Mrs. Bok. His stock in the publishing companies (presumed to be controlling interest) he left in care of seven trustees including Mrs. Bok, her sons Gary & Curtis. John C. Martin, Editor Lorimer, and two officers of his companies. The trustees were enjoined not to sell...
...most pleasant contrast, he hopes it would be located next door to some particularly staid establishment, like the Harvard Trust. For those who want beverage without food, however, he has planned his piece de resistance. This is to be a combination of the best features of the English pub or alehouse, and the tavern. Since this would be a vital part of the life of the college, it should have some official sanction. The proprietor would be elected by the graduates, or by representatives of the students and faculty in caucus, or perhaps he should be some sort of self...
...Vagabond is carried away merely by thinking on the possible bliss of mellow afternoons and roistering evenings over the tables of the university pub. In the mild spring twilights, after a long stroll along the river, he would stride obliviously through the bustle of office-workers returning home, choose himself an obscure but well-placed table, order himself a pint of ale, and observe the passers-by with that careless insolence which is proper only to Vagabonds and dowagers. Or perhaps, driving in from a gay, day-long junketing in the newly green countryside, he and she would stop...