Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns for the wretched minx. Embittered and ruined, he became porter at a low pub. How he buttled back from this social abyss to become a perfect butler in Manhattan is a story which will bring tears to the eyes of that dwindling body of citizens who have at heart the care and preservation of butlers...
Gaitskell is equally adept at using this "light touch" in both banter with miners in a midland pub and in debate on the floor of Commons, where his parliamentary wit has been sharpened through long tenure in the front benches. In his first bud-get message as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1951, for example, he presented complex economic data underlying a major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner...
...Historic Pub...
After reading your explanation [Sept. 24] of the name of London's Elephant & Castle, may a Londoner give you the name origin of another famous London pub, The Goat & Compasses? During the Great Fire...
London, one entire section of the city was burned down except for a local tavern, which stood intact, surrounded by gutted buildings. So the grateful innkeeper renamed his pub The God Encompasses...