Word: taverner
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Many prized vessels have been found, dust-covered and forgotten, in old barns and boathouses. Scherb, for example, paid $750 for a 1948 Chris-Craft Racing Runabout that had become landlocked inside a remodeled tavern. (The sellers used the money to pay for a new door to the bar.) Today, in pristine condition, the Chris-Craft is worth $20,000. The competition to find such abandoned treasures is becoming increasingly fierce, since the number of still undiscovered boats is estimated to be only...
...should "drop a dog at the Varsity." This sprawling landmark is where the pillars of society line up with hoi polloi for chili-topped hot dogs, cayenne-zapped onion rings and a cool, thick orange frosted. And to see local journalists at play, conventioneers can go to Manuel's Tavern, the spot for cold beer, spicy Buffalo chicken wings, lusty chili and burgers...
Similiarly, the Harvard academic calender exists because of tradition. The schedule began as a simple punishment to the Harvard Class of 1690 for their disgusting habit of putting the letter "e" at the end of otherwise tolerable words such as "tavern" and "shop." The students persisted for many years, and by the time the syntactic aberration was no longer vogue the Harvard schedule was already firmly imbedded...
...best Presidents have been adulterers. The unfaithful husbands in modern times (so far as we know) were Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and John Kennedy--three of the 20th century's best presidents. Thomas Jefferson was reviled in his day for allegedly keeping a slave mistress. Cleveland was a tavern brawler who admitted to fathering an illegitimate child. Lincoln, although apparently faithful to his wife, hated his father so much that he didn't even show up at his funeral...
Testimony during the trial, which became the subject of national attention and was broadcast on cable television, indicated the victim stopped at the tavern to buy cigarettes, and took someone's offer to stay and drink and watch pool...