Word: taverner
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Handy Reference. In Milwaukee, police wondered how burglars had stolen $1,200 from the Sailor Ann's tavern's locked, undamaged safe until Owner Gerrit Stell admitted that, since he could never remember the combination, he had scribbled it on a calendar over the safe...
...House. In Los Angeles, Winford Johnson, 39, was arrested on a complaint by the Temptation Inn owner, who had asked him to "watch the place for a while," later returned to find that Johnson had made off with $450 from the tavern safe after buying drinks all around...
Concentrating especially on the great prose writers of the later eighteenth century, Johnson and Edmund Burke, Bate obviously reacts against what he calls Boswell's "one-sided, tavern room portrait of Johnson." Currently preparing his own book on Johnson, Bate's critical approach follows the line of his subject. "Johnson found it impossible," Bate states, "to criticize justly any literary work without keeping the basic needs and desires of man constantly in mind...
...appreciated things done for him and always remembered favors. He was very generous with people who had done things for him (though he never extended this to his class fund to which he has never given) and usually remembered them at Christmas with packages of fruit from the Wiggins Tavern in Northampton which is owned by the Schine chain...
...banking on the fact that I could show the films again and cash in"). He won his gamble by reselling the films to the ABC network for $1,000,000. He has 30 writers hard at work on three on-the-air series (Public Defender, Duffy's Tavern, My Little Margie) and seven new programs...