Word: taverner
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...shortly before Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, Datini never knew the terrors of high explosives and concentration camps, let alone the menace of the atomic bomb. In their place he had the Black Death, tyranny, piracy, the ruthless brutality of mercenary armies. He was the son of a Prato tavern-keeper; by wise trading and prudent investment over a period of 32 years, he became rich enough to build his international business...
Died. John Butler (Jack B.) Yeats, 85, younger brother of the late Poet William Butler Yeats and Ireland's leading painter, known for his canvases filled with tinkers, tavern loafers, pirates and circus performers idling about Dublin's streets; in Dublin...
...union funds. The Teamsters' Western Boss Frank Brewster, who came to power as Dave Beck's first lieutenant (and followed Beck as chairman of the union's Western Conference), was described as having ordered a $3,900 Teamster loan to a Seattle racketeer for opening a tavern and gambling joint in Spokane...
...Sunday's papers, but Saturday night word of the plan reached King (who was tipped off by a long-distance call from a Minneapolis reporter who had seen the story on the Associated Press wire). King and his top M.I.A. associates spent most of the night going from tavern to tavern warning Negroes that there had been no real settlement...
...history of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard has been one of development from the fraternity which met regularly at Porter's Tavern in the early years of the 19th century to the more formal honors society of today...