Word: taverner
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...Changed Woman. Last July, in a tavern in St. Joseph, 50 miles north of Kansas City, Hall met puffy, whisky-soaked Bonnie Brown Heady. 41. * People around Nodaway County, Mo. remembered Mrs. Heady as a pigtailed little girl on a dappled pony given her by her father, a prosperous farmer. In St. Joe, she had been known for 20 years as the attractive wife of a livestock broker, with whom she attended square dances and club meetings. A year ago, her personality seemed to change. She divorced her husband. She took to swilling a quart of liquor...
There are tumultuous sequences as Olivier, after a wild fandango with the ladies of the tavern, is betrayed to the police and, perched on a coffin atop a cart, rides through a festive crowd to the gallows. Scene after scene is dressed up in resplendent Technicolored sets and costumes...
...responsible for the discovery of the mint julep [TIME, July 20], without even a mention of the Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right in this section early in 1800 by slaves who used a mountain...
Habitués. In Toledo, after spending almost five hours in Sam's Cafe before it closed for the night, Ford G. Belcher and two friends broke into the tavern half an hour later, told police when arrested: "We give Sam all our business...
...decided to take over Vichy France. At the Swiss border, Dulles was held up by a French official who seemed more impressed by the watchful eye of the local Gestapo man than by Dulles' impassioned references to Lafayette and Pershing. Finally, when the Nazi ambled off to a tavern for his regular noontime beer, the Frenchman gave Dulles the nod, and he crossed into Switzerland, the last American to arrive there legally for nearly two years...