Word: taverner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very pleasant place either. The only businesses are barrooms and army-navy uniform stores. One tavern, which the neighbors call "The Bucket of Blood," was the scene of a gangland murder a few years ago. There's another tavern, which they call "Dodge City," that is supposed to be a little bit safer. Then there's another bar called Frank the Gook's. In Frank the Gook's you can buy anything you want. Lined up with the bottles on the back part of Frank the Gook's bar are all sorts of things. Timex watches, kid gloves, candy bars...
Further up the street, closer to the potato sheds, is another little bar named McNulty & Grogan's McNulty & Grogan's is what they call a "family tavern," meaning that the management encourages a quiet sort of clientele and that it doesn't want any trouble. Outside, on the front door of the tavern, is a sign that reads: "McNulty & Grogan's Tavern: Near the potato yards, come in and meet the real spuds." There's a Separate Entrance for Ladies with Escorts...
...liquor store has displaced the tavern as the principal purveyor of wine and spirits; grocery stores now vend 80% of the nation's beer. Another way of saying this is that most U.S. drinking-about seven-tenths of it-now takes place in the home. Male drinkers still predominate, 77% to 60%, but the ladies' preference for lighter drinks and their sheer presence, has put a governor on the drinking capacities and intentions of the surrounding males...
...fines but must attend lectures that damn the old devil drink. In Czechoslovakia, the crackdown is aimed as much at those who sell booze to drivers as at the drivers themselves; a Czech motorist in search of a nip must thus park his auto well away from the tavern and make his approach by foot. West Germany's ten years of breath testing by police has given rise to a new industry that produces lozenges and mouth sprays to mask alcoholic fumes in the breath...
...cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, an epic intended to span two centuries of U.S. life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara: "She'll live in a Yankee mansion...