Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked him to obtain information and documents, even enlisted the help of his fiancee, Elizabeth Gee, 46, who also worked at the naval station. Between them they collected and photographed secret manuals (Particulars of War Vessels), Admiralty orders and charts. Nights they frequently relaxed at the Elm, where the pub's other patrons had come to know the generous and jovial Houghton as Harry. "One of our best customers," said the publican's wife. "We were amazed at his arrest...
...rake but is actually "virgers." (U.S. students of fictional manners may find Chote's virginity-after two years' service with the British army of occupation in Vienna-somewhat hard to credit.) He pretends not to work, but sneaks off after a few raucous beers at the local pub to do a bit of secret studying. On a scholarship he has gone to a minor but passably posh school, and his family, which has invested all its hopes in the possibility of his sliding into the mysterious, U-type Brahmin group of English society, cowers amid the potted plants...
...speak of. Like the author, the book's hero is the son of a Yorkshire coal miner. At 21, Vic Brown is so innocent and wholesome that England's angry young men wouldn't be caught taking a pint of bitter with him in a pub. Vic's trouble is, quite simply, sex and one particular girl. She is a "bint" who works in his office-legs right, figure right, fresh and sweet-smelling at 18. After a few bashful fumbles, Vic finds that he has "compromised" a nice but very ordinary girl who, on closer...
...English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love to be accepted as an old-school-tiehard, but inevitably smacks more of the pub than the club; and since the war he has done an admirable succession of non-U turns as a sort of half-inflated Blimp...
...background, she was full of phlegm because "there were hunger marches outside, and inside were girls being taught this tennis-club stuff." After completing the course, she left London on foot to walk north to seek her career, collapsed after 112 miles in Burton-on-Trent. scrubbed out a pub to get fare to go on to Manchester. There she got a job acting, writing and directing...