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There he went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...
...known to be under the influence of stimulants, announced the latest sober step forward in Eli Elucidation thus: "Special Yale School to Study Alcoholism; Purpose Is to Train Community Leaders." If, when in New Haven sometime in the Post-War World, you are unable to locate the local pub, just appeal for some community leadership...
Today, though Manhattan's swankest pub-crawlers flock to hear her, Mme. Alphand is already tired of professional life. Says she, with a Gallic shrug: "If I am not to sing, then I must sew, I must make hats or something." But she admits that she is not doing badly in the new world, says: "Heaven was very charming...
...origin to this expression. One of the most popular beers in prewar England was Burton beer. If anyone was wanted and he wasn't around, it was said that he had "gone for a Burton," for more often than not, he was to be found in the nearest pub...
...Pub Talk. In Bolton "the pub has more buildings, holds more people, takes more of their time and money than church, cinema, dance hall and political organizations put together." Of the city's 180,000 population, about 27,000 (15%) frequented 300 pubs with a round score of 20,000 steady drinkers averaging three pints a day. Of these "regulars," 90% were from 25 to 55 years...