Word: taverner
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...scalps, weathervanes, mousetraps, cannon, dolls, ships, skillets, forts, bells, barn locks, cradles, fans, whaleboats, powder horns, figureheads, quadrants, wigs, sugar tongs, smokehouses, privies, churches, fire engines, nursing bottles, grease buckets, saltcellars, muskets, paper money, tombstones, waterwheels, spurs, scissors,jugs, bookplates, teapots and a thousand other objects from buggies to tavern signs. It is a big book with white stars against a blue background on the inside cover and a title page in orange and black as handsome as the reproductions of colonial printers' masterpieces it contains. Between its red, 'white & blue covers it contains approximately 1,500 illustrations...
While the Star-Times kept the story boiling, the sedate morning Globe-Democrat scoffed from the sidelines, dismissed the charges as "tavern talk." The P-D went farther. It gathered Army interviews and statements, backed the War Department's position: that no more defective ammunition was passing inspection than could reasonably be expected in such a large plant...
...hint of Spain, no highfalutin of opera, clings to these people. Oscar Hammerstein's lively book uses straight Negro idiom, finds room-and here Carmen Jones strikes out boldly for itself-for a pulsating Negro gaiety. Not into Lillas Pastia's dim tavern, but into a packed and glittering night spot, does Husky Miller make his first royal entrance. Instead of hiding out in a smugglers' den, the Carmen Jones crowd cavort and click their heels at a swanky Negro country club...
Bert Lahr: Yes, sir, Arch was one of my finest boys at Harvard. Worked like a beaver: chewed up all the desks. --From "Duffy's Tavern...
...Duffy's Tavern (TIME, June 21) last week the bird laughed, whistled, sneezed and sang The Star-Spangled Banner. At the preshow rehearsal, with a full audience, the feathered guest star was in especially fine form. Raffles pondered the best lines of Duffy's star, rumpled Ed Gardner, and cooed: "Hello, darling." Once, when the audience guffawed at a Gardner quip, the petulant bird fixed a baleful eye on the customers and shouted: "Quiet!" It brought down the house. On Fred Allen's program last spring Raffles, who is crow-size, flew away with the show...