Word: taverner
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...First Love a deaf tavern boy is entranced by the urgent glamor of Aaron Burr, on the eve of his trial. His deafness becomes a mannered, melodramatic excuse for specialized sensations reported in beautiful prose. But he is never a living creature...
That time comes each morning at 0658, when, after we come to attention, we wait patiently for Co. B to get on its way to chow. Then, about 0703, we get started ourselves. Arriving at Conant's Tavern, "where the elite meet to eat," we route step at about...
...score of U.S. celebrities have gone as guests to Duffy's Tavern (Blue Network, Tues., 8:30 p.m., E.W.T.) and come away thoroughly buffooned. The buffoon is Barkeep Archie, a likable mug, strictly from Brooklyn, who shares the great American love of irreverent ribbing...
...years Duffy's has acquired about 7,000,000 steady listeners. Prisoners at San Quentin (their warden's name is Duffy) like the show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book...
...starts flowing at 1800, at the Harvard Club of Boston, Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenues (Mass. Ave. Station), and first on the programme are "unlimited cocktails" until 1845. Featured on the dinner will be Mushroom Soup, Roast Beef and Strawberry Sundae, garnished with Midshipman entertainment, some tavern harmony led by "Jake" and a very few remarks from the honored guests. Captain McIntosh, Lieutenant Commanders Hesser and Collins, and Lieutenant Anderson are expected to be an board, and Deans David and Smith, and Mr. Bates of the Harvard faculty have also been invited. That will be a party to remember...