Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen (Babson's Reports, Inc.) and gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...
...will have no program quite like Un Homme. It is as French Canadian as the words of Alouette. The 45 characters who wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called a "Wabo...
...Saturday night Vintenon and Roumeguere went to the hut. Next day François' mistress arrived and the doctor left. Sunday night François took the girl to Paris, then returned to Gif-sur-Yvette. In the village tavern he was seen to eat some food and swallow many pills; then he went off toward the hut. "Mon Dieu!" cried the doctor, when he found the body the next weekend, "there's an enormous Negro lying...
Czechoslovakia's Communist Ministry of Information frowned on the triumphant march of U.S. syncopation. It encouraged the old, well-loved Czech folk songs ("My sweetheart is drawing wine at the tavern, but I did not come for wine but for love...
...Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene of tender leave-taking between a girl and a soldier...