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Word: pubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fumes at the excessive pace (30 m.p.h.) of Al-derney's three cabs. He seldom ventures from the island these days, but during the war he prowled western Ireland, and his latest book is a memoir of these years, vagrant and various as the way home from a pub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Concert of Talk | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...battle was only starting. In Sydney a daily Sun reporter charged that he had walked up to Ava at a local pub and got a drink of champagne in his face, and the glass with it. Said he: "As I stood there dripping amid shattered glass, she gave me her views on the press in gutter language running mostly to fundamental four-letter words." Newsmen reported that she expressed the same views in roughly the same terms about the city of Melbourne to a nonplused officer of the aircraft carrier Melbourne, lent to the moviemakers by the Australian navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD ABROAD: Solitude, Sweet Solitude | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...extinguish it. The students were justified in their stimulation, though: restrictions that held them in the Yard were lifted whenever the word "Fire!" was heard. One historian claims that the young men also looked forward after fire-fighting to relieving their parched throats with firewater at the local pub...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Officials Cool to Harvard Fires But Blazes Ignite Student Spirit | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

London. To make way for a new road junction, London's urban planners recently decreed the destruction of The Elephant and Castle, a fabled 200-year-old pub, which lent something of the raffish, robust flavor of 18th century England to the whole London district of Southwark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Progress of a Sort | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...songs and dances that punctuate the destinies of the Boyle family often appear to be crashing the show. Melvyn Douglas kicks up a clog with a couple of cronies in a pub, and suddenly all Dublin floods onstage to sing that he's a Daarlin' Man, and hoist him on its shoulders. The intimate numbers are best. An Agnes de Mille solo, powerfully danced by Juno's doomed son (Tommy Rail), makes a poignant moment out of the life-destroying blight of Ireland's "Troubles." Two lovers' laments, One Kind Word and For Love, affectingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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