Word: taverner
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Williamsburg will hang its newly acquired picture of Nancy, who later married a church organist in Jamaica, in its Raleigh Tavern. This is fitting enough, since George dined there before going to the theater, and Nancy herself must have been no stranger...
...member of Delta, and the Hastly Pudding-Institute of 1770. His clubs included the Somerset, Tavern, Harvard Club of Boston, Wednesday and Thursday Evening Clubs of Boston. He was a Pilgrim-Tercentenary member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society...
...philosophic truths with a succession of Polonius-like truisms, an occasional feeling for language with pretentious and barbarous misuse of it. A good cast of actors, including Claude Rains, Christopher Plummer and Wendell Corey, were unhappily squandered on a pudding of a script-part scientific jargon, part Mermaid Tavern verse, part Madison Avenue prose-that sounded like cosmic advertising copy...
...lawyer for only two years, he had taken on his first criminal case and lost it. Violet Sill, 34, a bride of 15 months, had confessed, been tried and found guilty of manslaughter, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had fired the shotgun that killed her tavern-owner husband Marion; this was incontrovertible. Yet for 34-year-old Dave Weyer, who had once worked in a children's psychiatric clinic, Violet Sill's continued insistence on her own guilt raised the suspicion that something was wrong with the case. He decided to straighten...
Twenty years later John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...