Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense sirens and broadcast over radio and TV, unquestionably held down the death toll. Most people had time to scurry for refuge. Residents of the luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home. "But I sure wanted...
...England's good old days, the tavern, like the inn, was a refuge for travelers, providing bed, board, a warming fire and flagons of wine. For Samuel Johnson, who according to legend used the Cheshire Cheese as both club and office, there was "nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced." In the shadow of the tavern there was also the more modest "publick house," whose clients came mainly from the neighborhood. Divided into a public and private saloon bar, the pub usually included a snack bar, called a "snuggery," selling such...
...jury returned a sizable verdict for Edith Soronen, and the defendants appealed. A tavern may be liable to an innocent third person injured by a drunk whom it has helped to tank up, but must it also be its pickled brother's keeper? defendants asked. Yes, the New Jersey Supreme Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could...
...person" when he entered the Olde Milford Inn-an observation that was supported by the testimony of several patrons. But what if Soronen was drunk? the defendants went on. That would have made his accidental death the result of his own "contributory negligence." In either case, Frei and the tavern argued, they were not liable for damages...
From Outer Space. When they tired of too much Candy, reporters came up with surprising sidebars. The Chicago Daily News's M. W. Newman noted that Candy's brother DeWitt Weatherby, a Georgia tavern keeper, was convicted in 1956 of murdering a customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...