Word: taverner
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...longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
Evenings Maney makes the round of his shows. He seldom has time for other people's, has never seen six-year-old Tobacco Road. After theatre he drifts to a tavern, usually a newspapermen's hangout like Jack Bleeck's, where he guzzles and plays the match game for high stakes with his cronies, also gets in a word with dozens of useful newspaper people...
...sickly, handsome, humorless, egocentric, unimaginative, contrasted almost as sharply with Lee as with Lincoln. Almost kicked out of West Point, where he was 23rd in a class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause: a tavern keeper's daughter. Elected to the Presidency by accident (delegates preferred Toombs), he was bitterly assailed by his own colleagues. ("That scoundrel Jeff Davis," said Toombs.) A bad guesser, he made his worst guess when he tried to force English recognition by withholding cotton shipments. That notion cost...
...German side of the border came a car carrying six men in plain clothes, evidently Gestapo. They jumped out shooting. The Dutch sleuth fell. The Nazis dragged him and his comrade across the border into Germany, also kidnapping two other men who had sat talking in a nearby tavern...
...Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what is going on in the world...