Word: taverner
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SOME OF THE MORE obvious perspective changes in the book come from attitudes women could once laugh off, but now snarl at. A 1915 cartoon by Rollin Kirby, which appeared in the New York World, showed four men around a tavern table drinking and smoking with a newspaper whose headlines read: "Woman's Suffrage Defeated." The caption on the cartoon reads: "Well, boys, we saved the home...
...named John Surratt built a two-story clapboard house in the Maryland countryside about ten miles from Washington, D.C. Soon it served as a tavern, polling place, post of fice and home for the Surratt family, and the area became known as Surrattsville. After Surratt died in 1862, his widow Mary leased the building and moved to Washington, where she opened a boardinghouse. It was there, in 1865, that John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of Booth's associates, John Lloyd, turned state's evidence and implicated Mrs. Surratt in the conspiracy...
...many advisers, aides and secretaries, how large a press corps did he take with him? None. In addition to the men who handled his horses, his entourage consisted of his valet. The army of advancemen who set up the situation for Ford wherever he goes, where were they? Tavern keepers were amazed when a carriage turned unheralded into their dooryard and out stepped a tall man who proved to be the President of the U.S. The coachman would then investigate the stables, the President the rooms. If both proved too dirty for beast and man, the President would...
...differ from one another in the form and order of their buildings, but "as soon as the stranger arrives at the unknown city and his eye penetrates the pine cone of pagodas and garrets and haymows ... he immediately distinguishes which are the princes' palaces, the high priests' temples, the tavern, the prison, the slum...
...Treasury William Simon's tasteless joke about selling New York City to the Shah of Iran can be charged to his Wall Street background. But Gotham is no item on the commodity market. You cannot barter the vision of Washington at the Treasury Building or at Fraunces Tavern. There can be no dollar value on the pride one feels passing the site on Grove Street, where Tom Paine spent his last days, or at the site of Stats Huys, where Peter Stuyvesant read the mandate making New Amsterdam a haven for all people for all time...