Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to get their fill of beer at the Commons, students usually congregated in a tavern and bakery owned by a Mrs. Vashti Bradish. Complaints to President Dunster accused Mrs. Bradish of harboring students "unreasonably spending their time and parents estate". Not wishing Mrs. Bradish's innocent calling to be discouraged, the president made an agreement that she should not serve students with more than a pennyworth at a time, or more than twice a week on the average...
...others, five cases were continued for later hearing, 48 were discharged on the wives' recommendations. Of Elmer Diedrich his wife said, "I allow him to have one drink a day but he takes so long getting that drink I have to go to the tavern after him." Because Diedrich's baby son has the judge's middle name, Jerome, he was discharged. Of himself, Louie Sarna said, "I suffered more than I ever expect, judge, your honor, the shame. My ambition it has always been not to beat my wife. I no do it again." Of Felix...
Thence by foot to fleet Street where I made merry at Devil tavern with much mutton and wine and heard loose gossip of the queen. By and by a strange drowsiness came upon me--I fear from too much mutton--and I did dream a most strange dream, one more fit to fall upon the mind of our prophetic Bacon than a poor Vagabond like...
...Government went after him again, this time on a tax evasion indictment in the Southern New York district. Fighting a Federal motion to send him back to New York, Flegenheimer was at liberty on $50,000 bail when his enemies caught up with him in the Palace Chop House & Tavern...
...radio program for a soap manufacturer whose competitor is about to offer a criminal "March of TIME" on the air. The Pulitzer Prizeman throws his employer out a window of the Empire State Building, hangs a radio announcer, wakes up. Reviewers compared Crime Marches On with The Tavern, produced by George M. Cohan in 1920, which did not make any sense either...