Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pub keeper, indignant at American whites' behavior toward Negroes, put up a sign on his bar door: "For the use of the British and of colored Americans only." He was forced to remove it next...
...Belfast a Negro American soldier was stabbed to death and a white American soldier seriously wounded in a pub brawl...
...June, in the village where the first American colored troops were billeted, Pubkeeper John Parrish had said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners." An elderly native had remarked: "They are so polite it seems as if they have been repressed...
...woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when the Nazis came.) But the next week she was dancing a cockney tango with some of England's "little people" in an East End pub...
...their knees in white folks' houses, smoking tight-rolled English cigarets and guzzling flat English ale. When they wrote the folks back home, perhaps they complained of the damp English weather, the limp food. Or perhaps they mentioned stout John Parrish, pubkeeper of The Bull, who said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners...