Word: taverner
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...each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
...drop-forge worker is a peculiar sort of Joe. ... He makes forgings, eight, nine or ten hours a shift. After work he makes them in the tavern, he makes them at the dinner table, in fact, he makes them wherever and whenever he can get anyone to listen-and he always makes them better than the other...
Where should newspapers draw the line between what is fit to print and what isn't? That question was worrying the St. Louis Star-Times. It had reported the death of a teen-age girl as an "aftermath of tavern-hopping and sex orgy." Would it have been better to suppress this sordid story? In publishing such news, were newspapers themselves helping to make-more...
...television seemed to be discouraging a certain type of trespasser on the great male sanctuary. Said one tavern keeper: "Funny thing, hustlers don't play these bars with television much, not until after the program is over for the night. Too much conflict of interest...
...group, the 32 poets were remarkably hardy: ten lived to be over 70; only four died before 40. Of these four, Shelley was drowned and Marlowe killed in a tavern brawl, Keats died (at 26) of tuberculosis, and Byron of an unspecified disease (from his symptoms, diagnosticians now suspect typhoid or malaria...