Word: taverner
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Last week the iron-gated entrances to the mines of Sains were locked. Outside the gates a striker had planted a tricolor flag, which drooped in the grey air. In Sains, as elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
...wintry evening, the Dunces entrenched at Jim Cronin's tavern and proceeded to lend the patronage some well-tuned culture. Cronin's, which likes to compare itself to Mory's down at Yale, soon decided that it would not institutionalize the Dunces, as its Eli counterpart had glorified the Whiffenpoofs...
Duffy's Tavern (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC), with Fred Astaire buying the drinks...
...President found time for a few other sorties from his job. One night he visited the restored, 195-year-old Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, was ushered in by Colonial-style linkboys to see a revival of David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens. On Sunday he walked eight blocks to Washington's First Baptist Church, where he gave a little talk to the Sunday-School class...
...people in Moscow usually consist only of one room . . . used for all purposes. ... In this room you encounter a large stove covered with boards . . . whereon sits almost all year round, the entire family. ..." Their pleasures were few. Muscovites, who were social drinkers, liked to gather in a korchma (wine tavern) but the taverns were owned by the Czar and rented out to nobles: Muscovites who could not pay for what they drank were held until their friends ransomed them. For centuries, Muscovites did not know how to dance, and paid Tartars and Poles to dance for them...