Word: taverner
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Trustless of their own experience, the Puritans had gotten best at minding other people's business. At the taverns, which followed the cows to Boston, the constable's duty was to see that nobody drank "more than was good for him." In time, however, some did, and the taverns caused various disturbances with England, including a war. In 1747, when a fire turned the General Court into a street, its members met at the Royal Exchange tavern where, later, the only duel ever to be fought on Boston Common was started...
London, one entire section of the city was burned down except for a local tavern, which stood intact, surrounded by gutted buildings. So the grateful innkeeper renamed his pub The God Encompasses...
...murky section of London that takes its name from the long-departed Elephant and Castle Tavern,* exuberant Teds rioted for three consecutive nights, crashed in the door of one theater, streamed through neighborhood streets and taverns, smashed windows, threw bottles, heaved automobiles over on their sides. In Manchester the Teds ripped out the seats of a movie house, tossed light bulbs about, and turned a fire hose on objecting members of the audience...
Barman's Holiday. In Paterson, N.J., returning to her tavern after a month's vacation, Mrs. Arlene Bassano discovered that Manager Robert Cunningham had given away or downed its entire $700 stock, was under treatment at a center for alcoholics...
...wants a slave. They treat their women like dirt-worse than dirt. They slug them and spit in their faces and then go off and leave them at home while they go sit in these coffee houses. Even before we left Tacoma, he used to go out to a tavern some nights and leave me at home with baby. I told him I wouldn't stand for that, and I asked if he'd leave me at home alone when we got to Iraq. 'Oh no,' he said, 'I promise I'll never leave...