Word: taverner
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...Kansas City, Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Frenchy Bordagaray, weakening on his decision to retire to tavern-keeping, advertised: "The Bums is calling me. For Sale - $12,000-a-year business - cheap...
...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...
...biggest assets in the show. Such famed beauties as Kay Aldridge and Mildred Law will not go unrecognized by frequenters of the Shubert and dippers into Vogue. The veteran cast includes, beside Digges and Cossart. Cora Witherspoon, Mary Wickes, Jack Smart, and Eddie Green of "Duffy's Tavern." All are capable comedians without suitable material, but, all join in the chorus, "By the time it reaches New York...
...daughter is in a pitiable condition. She is not yet 18 and about to give birth to an illegitimate child. The father is a married man who is in the service. He took my daughter to a tavern and gave her the first drink she ever...
...horses. Soon he earned enough money to rent out theatrical costumes and furnishings. Something of a wit in his coarse way, he began editing plays for production, soon became a play agent, buying and renting the works of others. On the side he kept a brothel: "In his tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life. His "fat body" was soon "taxed by excesses." Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin...