Word: taverner
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...collected detailed maps of fortifications, with Latin notations in the margins, and hid them under the inner soles of his shoes. Just how he was captured is unknown, but one story put it that he was recognized by a Tory relative as he sat in Rachael Chichester's tavern ("Mother Chick's"), and betrayed...
...That week Thomas called an old friend and said: "I'm tired of all the goddam writers around here. Why don't you give me a party with no writers, only beautiful women?" Late that Saturday night, after the party, Thomas showed up at his favorite tavern, the White Horse, a dark-paneled, homey bar on the western outskirts of Greenwich Village. His eyes were glazed, bloodshot, heavy-lidded...
...excessive drinker, on and off, for years, Poe was found in a Baltimore tavern on election day in 1849. He was taken unconscious to the hospital, and died, at the age of 40, after three days of violent delirium...
Harvard Square tavern owners and bartenders expected slight effect on business from yesterday's Senate vote to enact a bill providing fines of $10 to $100 for minors who purchase alcoholic beverages. One prominent tavern owner said that although some minors might be discouraged from purchasing drinks, "lax police enforcement" would lessen the bill's effect...
...thirstiest patron blows the bluenosiest citizen right out of the water, Dan is stripped of his liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds up in a saloonkeeper's heaven on Nob Hill. Like Dan's old tavern, the book is cluttered with all sorts of people-righteous madams, pining widows, pinko artists, lovelorn profs. It plays fast and loose with San Francisco's dignity-not to mention the Dutch master's. But it is big, breezy, and stacked with lusty action-more like a Bruegel than...