Word: taverner
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Falstaff very much holds the stage here, now in witty talk of this or that, now in tavern scenes with Doll Tearsheet or Mistress Quickly, now in his travels through the Gloucestershire of Shallow and Silence. He is still marvelously exuberant, ingenious, incorrigible, but his revels are now ending. He and his cronies, whether sluts or simpletons, are tarnished with age and touched with pathos. But. more than that. Henry IV draws near his end, and soon a playboy Hal's untroubled head must wear the crown. Shakespeare now, against the last thinned merrymaking of rascals, counterposes the making...
Community Spirits. In Tokyo, a fire broke out in the Immoral Classroom tavern, but was quickly put out after it had destroyed the bar next door, called Tomorrow Is Too Late...
...Rose. In Bridgeport, Mich., John Fisher was arrested after setting a bag labeled "Flower Fund" on a tavern bar, allegedly using the proceeds for his own drinks...
Without a Trace. In Dallas, a burglar robbed a tavern, made off with 252 cans of beer and 174 breath-cleansing chlorophyll tablets...
...cold and hungry with his brood, died penniless (in 1666) at the age of 86. In good times he would march off to the club, being fond of music, beer and jolly company. His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table...