Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Page one: Bill Saunders beats up an ex-pugilist bouncer in a pub. Page two: the ex-pug is dead and Bill is chased through the streets of London. Page three: Bill breaks into a room to hide, finds there a pretty salesgirl named Jane, and spends the night with...
...night skeptical Landlord Bob Reynolds, of the rival Dog and Gun Inn, who had scoffed at reports of the witch's pranks, found a boulder the size of a beer barrel outside his pub door...
...were a little out of his line, but the doctor went to work with Celtic canniness, came up with a report-on Publican Sykes. "He is an upstanding citizen . . . but, I fear, a man with a glass in his eye for business. . . . All the witnesses were customers of his pub. . . . The witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times in as many years. . . . It is my reluctant conclusion that the witch of Scrapfaggot Green is-to be blunt...
Every evening he pushed aside his ledgers and fled to the bars of west London-the Cock, the Crown, the Cheshire Cheese, the Café Royal-where he found his friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...
...telegrams poured in, thousands on thousands of them: a tribute from the Red Caps of New York's Pennsylvania Station; from President Roosevelt and from Governor Thomas E. Dewey; tributes from little people, many of them signed only "A Friend." In a London pub he had visited in 1941, his photograph was draped with crepe; one of the "regulars" drank a toast to him: "We're sorry he's gone. He was a proper gent-very easy to mix with...