Word: tavern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe and two Harvard students spent a night in jail Saturday following an "after-hours" raid upon a "home-made" basement tavern in Roxbury by police...
...audiences pay attention from ringside clear back to the chromium bar stools. In Manhattan and Detroit last week, Sallie, 24, and Abbey, 27, were peddling Topic A with a gusto that few singers have displayed since Dorothy Dandridge and Eartha Kitt started giving night classes in it for the tavern trade...
...form of human expression that contains "beauty, truth, and relevance." Since it is transmitted orally, balladry provides important clues to the history of the epic; the late Milman Parry, a Harvard philologist, devoted his energy to the recording of Yugoslavian folk ballads of legendary heroes from the lips of tavern minstrels...
...Bottom. In Milwaukee, Howard G. Rivers Jr. masked his face with one of his baby's diapers, got caught robbing the Bottoms-Up tavern...
...family, is a canny millionaire-in-the-making and a guilt-ridden lecher who loses successive mistresses to his wife's beagle-eyed sleuthing. Dave cannot stand the pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool...