Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parliament rang with "Hear! Hear!" Editorialists cheered. The man-in-the-pub took it all with quiet satisfaction. Dissent was small indeed-but sharp. Cried Communist Harry Pollitt: "The U.S. wants to use this country as its unsinkable aircraft carrier and base for the dispatch of the atomic bomb...
After the staff had finished the night's work, they gathered in nearby Lorenzo's, the office pub, to drink things over. They talked loudly, drank vigorously, and tried to laugh often. When City Editor Wayne Adams walked behind the bar for a moment, someone cheered: "Look-you've got a job already." But for all the forced jokes they felt disillusioned and lost. In a few hours, the wake was over; the lights went out at Lorenzo's for the night, and at the Star for good...
...necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely two marks of the Christianity that the church aims to produce...
...extraverted, sometimes ungrammatical column that Kup's pub-crawling distils is blended with many predictions, on the usual columnist's theory that some are bound to come true. (About 50% do.) But it is written without malice or fakery...
...enemies call him a great old ham actor, a sort of Monty Woolley of art; his cronies bedeck his name with legends, most of which center around his prowess in pub and boudoir. They say that he is descended from gypsies and hint that he has lived a wild, free, gypsy life. His friends point out that he has always been an intense family man (he has had nine children), that he succeeded as a painter through hard labor, and never ceases struggling to improve his art (frequently overworking his larger pictures). A less friendly tale has it that...