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...when Joseph Jefferson, greatest of all Rips, played it in 1859, the scene when bearded old Rip wakes up after his 20 years' nap, finds that everyone has forgotten him and a picture of George Washington taking King George's place in Nick Yedder's tavern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Open-Air Music | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...BIRD CAGE-Eimar O'Duffy- Kinsey ($2). Disappearance and murder in an English tavern lead to the killing of an investigator, but the twister is trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...hopes it would be located next door to some particularly staid establishment, like the Harvard Trust. For those who want beverage without food, however, he has planned his piece de resistance. This is to be a combination of the best features of the English pub or alehouse, and the tavern. Since this would be a vital part of the life of the college, it should have some official sanction. The proprietor would be elected by the graduates, or by representatives of the students and faculty in caucus, or perhaps he should be some sort of self-perpetuating body, to insure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

...Help Wanted" signs were hung out by Philadelphia brewers swamped with job-seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: April Beer | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

NOYES (Alfred) Tales of the Mermaid Tavern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN BOOKS WHICH ARE DUE FOR A RISE | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

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