Word: taverner
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...what has the squire got to say about his thing of beauty, "The Tavern," which opened its doors just six weeks ago? "It's not like the palmy days when I licked Schmeling, but now I get a steady income and in spite of the large overhead--seven bartenders going all the time--we'e done pretty well...
...business being thus closed, the Members adjourned to the City Tavern, dined together and took a cordial leave of each other; after which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with, and received the papers from the Secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous w[or]k which had been executed, after not less than five, lor; large part of the time Six, and sometimes 7 hours sitting every day, [except] Sundays and the ten days adjournment . . . for more than four months...
...which has the least effect on those consuming liquor in restaurants and other public dispensaries. There is, in practice, only a very slight pretence at enforcement of this clause elsewhere than in places so rigidly controlled as the House Dining Halls. In any Boston restaurant or tavern, a boy of sixteen who is gifted with a mature face and bearing, may purchase enough liquor to interfere materially with the proper functioning of his limbs. An ordinary boy of eighteen can get his shot of the McCoy anywhere. In Harvard Dining Halls, unfortunately, the man who an hour before was drinking...
...that such a special license may be issued only if Cambridge votes to permit all forms of liquor or if it votes to issue licenses for the sale of malt beverages and wines. It is probable that Cambridge will go overwhelmingly wet, even to the extent of allowing the tavern, since only a few of the voters living here for a long time, can remember the old saloons which were banned in this town in 1887. The result will be known on December 19 when Cambridge will hold a referendum on the subject...
...tavern is a real menace to the nation as a whole, believes Mrs. Robert W. Lovett, vice-chairman of the Women's Organization for National Pro- hibition Reform and chairman of the Massachusetts Branch. Mrs. Lovett feels that the men who voted for the tavern have broken their pledge to stop the return of the saloon. "After proof of the power of an organized minority typified by the passing of the eighteenth amendment, it is incredible to me that the citizens of this state should be willing to accept dictation by another small group, that is to say by those...