Word: taverner
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...Kings Tavern, which had a cheery sign reading "Men's Bar" hanging outside, has closed up and gone underground. The owner, Nick Harris, has opened a cabaret, spell it cafe, directly underneath the old location, where young girls and bearded students hang out. It's at 30B (for Basement) Boylston, and the old regulars at Kings Tavern feel there's no place there for them...
...Kings Tavern is being remade into "Minuteman Radio" by owner John Waugh, who will have a mod radio and record shop there. It will open about March 1 with a "Hi-Fi Happening...
There is no joy at these tidings among the elderly Irishmen who have been sampling the delights of Kings Tavern's draft beer since it first opened, as the "Essex Lunch," 32 years...
...most magnificent master of the swearword who ever inhabited Kings Tavern was a bricklayer who was also an accomplished artist, painting in oils and watercolors. He swore in multi-syllables, interspersed profanity between dictionary words, such as: "This is the most non-Goddamn-son-ofabitching-sensical suggestions I ever heard of!" Nobody since Joseph Pulitzer Sr., who invented multi-syllable swearing, had heard such poetic loquacity...
...that the place wasn't one oferuditeness and respectability. Once two Harvard professors were sipping a beer in the Kings Tavern and arguing about the Etruscan Wars...