Word: taverner
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...music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...
...tank. Even more characteristic of Western traditions are Spawn of the North's womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater instead of a sarong but with the same effect, as a tough tavern-keeper who will stick to George Raft through thick & thin, no matter what people think...
...paintings of some fo his stay-at-home contemporaries. he loved the brown pigment, bitumen, and it not only dulled his canvases but cracked extensively after a few years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry James. After her death in 1888 his painting became uncertain, yielded to impressionist influences, infrequently showed his old spontaneity...
...Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale 4.00 Glen House, Gorham 3.50 Hanover Inn, Hanover 4.00 The Hawthorne, Jackson 3.50 Headlands, Intervale 3.00 Hotel Howard, Bartlett 3.50 Jackson Ski Club, Jackson 5.00 Kearsage Hall, North Conway 3.50 Kearsage Hotel, Portsmouth 1.50 Laconia Tavern, Laconia 1.50 Lancaster Inn, Lancaster 4.00 Lebanon Inn, Lebanon 1.50 Lee's Hotel, Littleton 3.50 Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln 4.00 McKenzies, Franconia 5.00 Mount Belknap Hotel, Lakeport 1.50 Mount Madison House, Gorham 4.00 Mount Prospect Lodge, Plymouth 4.00 Mountain Rest Estate, Intervale 4.00 New London Inn, New London 4.00 Pemigewasset Hotel, Plymouth...
...death-grips in a lighthouse with an underworld menace known as The Octopus. Lost documents, a character using a hook instead of a hand, secret stairways, octopus tentacles and poison gas are handled in pseudo-mysterious manner, sometimes reminiscent of George M. Cohan's famed burlesque, The Tavern, sometimes just good-natured hokum...