Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From within a pub at Weymouth (England) after hours, a passing constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...
...College Youths from their appointed bongfest. Last week, at the Society's 302nd annual shindig, the "Bore War" did what fire and plague could not. This time the members did their Stedman Caters and Oxford Singles with hand bells in the upstairs room of a blacked-out London pub. Reason: open-air change-ringing might drown out air-raid sirens...
...true that Mr. Sousa originally sold Washington Post to a Philadelphia pub:lisher for $35. Later Carl Fischer purchased that publisher's catalogue including the Sousa music. Thereafter (still during the term of the first copyright period) Carl Fischer made a new agreement with Mr. Sousa in accordance with which Mr. Sousa and his estate were to receive a royalty on every copy sold in every arrangement published...
First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...
...woman named Maggie, and father of several children, but involved in some way with a girl named Anna. Earwicker has been mixed up in some drunken misdemeanor, his dreams are filled with fears of being caught by the police. He dreams that he is coming out of a pub with his pals; a crowd gathers; one of the revelers sings a song, but it turns into a recital of Earwicker's sins and folly. He dreams that he is called upon to explain the fable of "the Mookse and the Gripes"; as he begins, the Mookse comes swaggering...