Word: taverner
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Plaintiff was attractive Mrs. Germaine Torrence, 28, whose husband Herbert, 36, a mail carrier tired from lugging Christmas mails, paused at a tavern during the holidays to have a few beers. Subsequently he stopped at a package store for wine and whiskey and then went home and gave his wife such a beating that she was "sick, sore, lame and disordered and did suffer a fractured nose." Mrs. Torrence is now back with her husband, but last week she was asking $20,000 for her Yule beating from the landlords and proprietors of both the grogshop and package store. Prosecuting...
...hunter than a painter but betrays his ancestry by a fondness for good food and French poodles. As an additional distinction he is a member of the only firm of mural painters in the U. S.: Bouché, Saalburg & Henry. However, Partners Allen Saalburg (Central Park's Tavern on the Green) and Everett Henry (Ford Building, San Diego Fair) had no part in this prize-winning mural...
...Manhattan, arrested while hacking at a fire hydrant with an ax. James Boyle explained in court: "I found the ax on my way home from a tavern and just couldn't resist the impulse to chop something down. I used to be in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...Whittle, it developed, had been so busy tending a tavern she had just opened in nearby Half Day that for a fortnight she had had no time to tend her dogs. Great was her indignation when she was served with a warrant sworn by Mrs. McLaughlin charging cruelty to animals. "This," cried Mrs. McLaughlin to a Deerfield Justice of the Peace last week, "is the most inhumane case that ever came to my attention...
...Randall, Wis., having abolished property taxes, granted liberal appropriations for road, bridge and culvert repairs, Town Chairman George Dean called a town meeting to decide how to spend Randall's $16,000 surplus from tavern, cigaret and utility taxes. Moaned he: "It's got me licked...