Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers. The drawings had a good humor of their own, though the gags that went with them were too topical or parochial for export...
...maneuver gained him a head start on the rush of students down the center aisle. Once in the street, he strode rapidly -his black gown billowing behind his grey flannel trousers-to the nearest pub for a pint...
...engaged in his full-time and favorite job-the job of being an Oxford don in the Honour School of English Language & Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world...
...Gracie had any remaining doubts about her restored popularity, they should be quieted by now. Her fan mail was up to 3,800 letters a week-topping anything in her toast-of-the-pub days...
...Springfield, Ill., Governor Dwight H. Green vetoed a bill to abolish snapshot-taking in nightclubs, tossed the pub-crawling public a little basic advice: if you don't want to be photographed with the wrong person, go with the right...