Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John M'etaxas, the new Dictator (TIME, Aug. 17). A second car brought King Edward VIII. Over cups of tea the two men talked earnestly for more than two hours. That night Edward and his pleasure-cruising friends were up until 3 a. m. dancing in a simple tavern and open-air cabaret, near Athens...
...life." Lincoln's Mayor Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor of Nebraska, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, brother of the late Great Commoner, spied a couple hugging each other as they drove down a Lincoln street, followed them into a beer tavern. At the Mayor's complaint, the bartender refused to serve beer to the couple. Into another tavern they marched...
...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...
...Chicago, Tommy Cushman, 4, marched into a tavern, declared he was lost, had the bartender notify the police, waited until Policeman Thomas Mahoney drove by and took him home in the patrol wagon. Chuckled Policeman Mahoney: "He's a smart boy. Tommy's been after me for a week for a ride in the wagon, but I couldn't do it on account of regulations...
...Watertown, Wis., Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke, 50, worked behind the bar at his tavern for the first winter in 23 years. Ever since 1913 Gehrke had made a practice of going to bed about Thanksgiving, dozing out the winter, arising about Easter. Last month his wife Grace dropped dead while reading a newspaper. "Turkey" Gehrke had to come out of hibernation to attend her funeral, take care of his business...