Word: taproom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone Fishing. Equally haphazard is Shelburne's general store, a zany montage of barbershop, country doctor's office, dentist's cubicle, post office and taproom whose shelves are laden with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and outside the door hangs a hand-painted sign: "Gone fishing be back Monday mebbe." The schoolhouse combines a dunce cap made from an 1868 newspaper with wall drawings made by Lincoln-era schoolchildren and period mottoes written on the blackboard: "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages...
...visit to London's Press Club. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 60, became the first woman ever to enter its hallowed taproom, graciously acknowledged the honor by picking up a billiard cue and hazarding a left-handed shot. "Rather fun," said Queen Mum. while being snapped in an already famous photograph. After she had departed the Fleet Street sanctuary, the club secretary commented, "She was very expert; you can tell that she's played before" a supposition subsequently confirmed by a press aide, who classed her a pretty fair player...