Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England with an ill-fitted metal leg and a battered mind. He visits the grave of his old flame Rose, who died while he was away. Everything reminds him of her: the blossoms fringing the graveyard, her father's chatter, the name of a waitress in a pub. When Rose's father urges him to visit an attractive London widow, Charley takes the address but shows little interest; he is still dreaming of Rose...
...familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate boudoir like a candlelit tomb; women in a pub talking of postwar problems ("Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. / He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you / To get yourself some teeth...
...Major down Limehouse way). 'Make a pot of tea, Griff, and get a piece of cake. Now you stop crying, mother, and we'll soon get things settled.' " Such is Limehouse's loyalty to Clement Attlee that even today the patrons of the Castle pub along Commercial Road will say: "If yer wants ter get yer face bashed in, just run 'im dahn, that...
...scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted by the demands of a changing world and an older student body ("How could you stop a lieutenant colonel from drinking in a pub?" asked an official), Oxford's authorities had quietly dropped the old law from the books...
...Somebody cracked: "This is one thing you can't blame on the Socialist government," and somebody laughed. Somebody started a song; the rest joined in. Afterwards, Cook Ray Fry said: "It didn't seem long, because everyone laughed and joked as if they were in the local [pub]. But you felt bad inside...