Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, though Manhattan's swankest pub-crawlers flock to hear her, Mme. Alphand is already tired of professional life. Says she, with a Gallic shrug: "If I am not to sing, then I must sew, I must make hats or something." But she admits that she is not doing badly in the new world, says: "Heaven was very charming...
...origin to this expression. One of the most popular beers in prewar England was Burton beer. If anyone was wanted and he wasn't around, it was said that he had "gone for a Burton," for more often than not, he was to be found in the nearest pub...
...Pub Study. There is no "typical" British pub, but the pub is typical of Britain. The socially snobbish do not frequent pubs. The rich drink at home or in their clubs. But not the little people - the ones who angrily withstand blitzes, who keep the mills running, the crops harvested, the ships sailing, Britain going...
...study of the pub and of its place in the life of Britain was recently published in London. The Pub and the People was the work of an organization called Mass-Observation, which for three years scrutinized the Lancashire cotton-mill town of Bolton. Sample observation: A man aged 66 wrote: "Why I drink Beer, because it is food, drink, and medicine to me, my Bowels work regular as clockwork, and I think that is the Key to health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles...
...Pub Talk. In Bolton "the pub has more buildings, holds more people, takes more of their time and money than church, cinema, dance hall and political organizations put together." Of the city's 180,000 population, about 27,000 (15%) frequented 300 pubs with a round score of 20,000 steady drinkers averaging three pints a day. Of these "regulars," 90% were from 25 to 55 years...