Word: taverner
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...night in a tavern, the young bucks got together: they would file their own slate for the village elections. Hot Rod would run against his father; another young fellow would oppose his father-in-law for a seat on the village board. They rounded up 48 votes, figured that they thus controlled better than half of the votes usually cast. The trick was to pretend that their campaign was all a gag, so that the oldsters wouldn't get stirred...
...bring off its coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well-known stars as Cinemactors Charles Boyer, Rosalind Russell, Olivia de Havilland, Gary Grant and James Mason, as well as Comics Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Henry Morgan...
Test Case. In Manhattan, Tavern Owner Lillian Wolfe joined a discussion of crime, assured two of her customers that "if this place were held up, I'd hand over every cent," promptly obliged when one of them pulled...
Borculo's villagers remembered, too, that after the wind died down, they had needed help badly, and help had come from many quarters. Now, they thought, it was their turn to help. Around a big potbellied stove in Harry Tijdink's tavern, an "Aid Warren Committee" promptly met to talk it over. "At least," said Drost, "we can show our sympathy in something more than words." "Right," agreed Farmer Jan Dave, as the campaign got under way. "Our help won't amount to much. But the nice thing is that it brings us all together...
Baker was found dying of a pistol bullet wound through the head early yesterday shortly after his jeep wrecked. He had been riding in the moonlight along a lonely dirt road, with pretty Thelma Griffin, a young divorced tavern car hop who had met him only a few hours before at a night club...