Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teetotalers, and to some other gloomy characters, the British pub is a sink of iniquity, the repository of much that is ingrown, insular and debilitating in British life. For sober students of drinking and human nature, it is the haven and repository of much that is good and warm ing in British life, an important and perhaps the most democratic institution in Britain...
...series Transatlantic Call (Sun., 12 noon, E.W.T.). "Plenty of doughboys come down to look at Lambeth Walk," said one Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...
...yesterday to be a good Englishman and a good European. His national post-war policy endorsed in fact if not in name the Beveridge Plan for compulsory social security; he pledged himself to abolish the old school tie tradition, to rid England of drones, whether they be aristocrats or pub crawlers. And showing the type of realism which differentiates constructive planning from political promises, he offered a definite financial program calling for high taxes and stabilized prices to avoid inflation. Social legislation would not be allowed to kill private enterprise...
...said, "We were told by white American soldiers that all Negroes are cannibals, illiterates, savages, and that they will rape our women. We were told that all Negroes were ragged and diseased." The English, too, were surprised at the racial prejudices in the American Expeditionary Force, and from pub to Parliament have criticized this "American...
...want to start a fight in a British pub, just step up to the bar, next to a Scot of the Gordon Highlanders, and ask the barmaid for a half pint of broken squares.* A similar but more up-to-date casus belli might be to ask a seaman off H.M.S. Churchill about the Battle of Lasola Island...