Word: taverner
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Questioned yesterday, one local tavern proprietor described his Convention-watching customers as "not as wild" but "much more intent" than the people who flock to bar television sets for such events as the World Series...
...reality, like Thomas Smith, but as an apparition. Shrewd as J. P. Morgan, straight as Queen Victoria, she rises out of the night, holding her book like a scepter. The ancient well merited her haunting memorial. One of Boston's original settlers, she bore twelve children, kept a tavern and lived to be 105, surviving all of her generation...
...tavern near West Point in the 1820s and was, according to Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, the "only soul in the entire Godforsaken place." Mellowed by Havens' hot ale flips, cadets used to sing (to the tune of The Wearing of the Green) their unofficial West Point song: Come fill your glasses, fellows, and stand up in a row, To singing sentimentally we're going for to go; In the army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow, So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens...
...Show. In Des Moines, Federal revenooers socked Barmaid Ruth Shepler with a claim for $44,693.84 in back taxes, insisted that her feat of balancing two to four glasses of beer on her breasts as she goes about her work constitutes "entertainment," thus subjects her tavern to the 20% U.S. cabaret...
...Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Rutland or the Earl of Derby. Some 20 years ago a Broadway pressagent named Calvin Hoffman dug up another old theory: the true author was the dissolute young genius Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, so this one goes, was not killed in that famous tavern brawl; he simply went into hiding and as an outlaw wrote the plays since credited to Shakespeare. Proof of this theory, Hoffman figured, might well be found in the tomb of Marlowe's benefactor Sir Thomas Walsingham, who was laid to rest some three centuries ago in the parish church...