Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts and modest blouses, sit stiffly on the tiny stage, waiting their turns to line out La donna è mobile or Un bel di. The audiences come to hear music, and they listen with attention, shush fiercely at loud-crowing pub crawlers...
...poor man's pub and the rich man's dinner table, the most hotly debated subject in Britain for weeks past has been homosexuality. The question: Should homosexual acts between consenting adults be taken off the list of statutory crimes in Britain? Last September a special governmental committee headed by Sir John Wolfenden declared that they should. So did many medical men and most of the intelligentsia. Last week, before galleries crowded with spectators (most of them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord...
Encouraged by the girl's fascinated expression, Thresky added that he and his night-flying date had been pub-hopping in Manhattan. After a day of sight-seeing, including an exhausting flight to the top of the Empire State Building, Thresky took the Owl to the Stork Club for champagne...
...Altar Boy. McNulty had an ear like a hard neighborhood cop for the giveaway phrase. Describing one of his sad quirky little pub characters, a man called The Slugger, he wrote: "He looked like a guy that was maybe a small altar boy and fell into bad company for thirty-four years...
...something longer, headier, woozier-such as the tale of a small Dylan accompanying a busload of revelers on a daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...