Word: tavern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike his artistic hero Turner, who was content to sleep on tavern tables on his cross-country art hikes (and once had himself bound to a ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...
...Road. In Beechwood, Wis., Mrs. Joseph Hann bruised her leg in a collision involving a car, a truck, and the tavern in which she was sitting when she was knocked off her bar stool...
Fall from Grace. In Milwaukee, after being awarded a National Safety Council medal for two years of safe driving, Truck Driver George Pratt went to a ball game where he drank eight bottles of beer and a slug of whisky, adjourned to a tavern where he tossed down two more beers, headed for another saloon, missed a turn, caromed off a telephone pole, was robbed of his medal, called the cops, was sentenced to ten days...
...tension started building around noon today. Some juniors passed up lunch. Others slipped into Mory's Tavern to ease the strain, while the societies readied their lists of nominees...
Whether its Junior Prom or Charity Ball, or even a weekday date, a well-recommended way to a Smith girl's heart is through her stomach. Rahar's Inn, served by popular "Murph," is the handiest, while Wiggins Old Tavern is nice, in a plush fashion. For beer, pizza, and "atmosphere," the girls like Joe's, but the mountain-top Log Cabin or the Sportsman's Club provide a full meal or dancing...