Word: taverner
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...there are points of contact between the town and gown. Each night, students drink beer in the booths at the Tally-Ho, which are equipped with intimate green lanterns and a sign that reads "No Stags Or Loiterers." Behind the bar, English tavern scenes appear under glass panes on the wall and quart beer bottles are displayed on the liquor shelves. When a student ambles over from the shuffleboard machine to order a sloe gin fizz, the curiosity shown toward this beverage by the others at the bar may compel him to pass the drink around, but he is repaid...
...Other problems existed besides language. His entire wardrobe consisted of one jacket, one pair of slacks, one pair of shoes, two pairs of blue jeans. But by the St. Paul's catalogue, he needed a much fuller list of clothes, including winter boots and coats. Charles Stafford, a tavern owner from Laconia, N.H. visiting Morocco on a trade mission, met the boy, decided to help. He went home and raised $500 from his state's Rotary Clubs. Adeline Martin, a clerical worker at the Nouasseur air-base near Casablanca, sold the Volkswagen she had won in a raffle...
Emptied Pubs. The pubs on St. Ann's Well Road last week were filled with edgy whites and Negroes. At Chase Tavern a young Negro drew angry mutters when he entered with a white girl. At closing time a band of Negroes came down the road. As they neared the pub, one of several white loungers called: "What are those black bastards looking at us for?" With shouts of "Get them!" the Negroes descended, knives flashing, left two white men writhing on the ground. Within minutes, as nearby pubs emptied, fighting became general. Negroes and whites smashed bottles, grabbed...
...recounts Read, a Canadian sheriff who lost a culprit in a bog swore out a warrant, explaining that the offender "non est comeatibus in swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...
...Book recommenders cramp my bowels," said the middle-aged cynic, and turned away. But there had been a time when he was young, when the Soon-to-be Lost Generation trooped to the local tavern and lit candles to a literary icon most of us have now forgotten...