Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest, sanest order in the Western world was changing. Britons who had voted for the change realized that it was upon them when last week they pondered a pub-shaking fact: they had a Five-Year Plan...
...appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
...Very Amusing Sirs: Nothing has given me greater satisfaction than to read your report on the Chicago pub lic school system [TIME, May 28]. . . . Not until I escaped [from it ] did I realize just what I had not received...
...instance I worked on a British field near here on the runway making repairs, and had as my commander on that job a group captain in the R.A.F. His family was 'in trade' in England, and his brother owns a pub in London. For my money he is the finest gentleman I've met over here in any army. There was not any rank between us; it was man-to-man on that job. But the men under him, the little civil servants in his command, were as near to perfect examples...
Secret of Contentment. In a prosperous riverside pub, The Anchor, Texan Dobie spent many hours "when darkness came early," swapping countryside legend and philosophy. There he would find at a corner table cronies like Horner, who ran away to sea at the age of 13, inveighing bitterly against politicians, against women "because they spend their lives making men think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over...