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Kilty is marvelous at conveying Falstaff's weight; and when he drops his walking stick in the first tavern scene, he has trouble picking it up -- with hilarious effect. This stick, by the way, is his chief prop -- a little too short, and comically bent. It looks all the funnier when juxtaposed with the long straight staff carried by the prim and proper Chief Justice (Alexander Clark). When Kilty tries to use his stick as a sword, the result is worthy of W.C. Fields' famous attempt to play pool with a crooked...
Family Saloons. Royko remembers his boyhood as just the right background for a future columnist. Born in a middle-class Polish neighborhood, he got to know the city by tagging along after his father, a "tavern tycoon," who bought and sold one saloon after another. As he grew older, he graduated to important jobs, such as transporting money for a bookie operating out of one of his father's taverns...
...defense sirens and broadcast over radio and TV, unquestionably held down the death toll. Most people had time to scurry for refuge. Residents of the luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home. "But I sure wanted...
...England's good old days, the tavern, like the inn, was a refuge for travelers, providing bed, board, a warming fire and flagons of wine. For Samuel Johnson, who according to legend used the Cheshire Cheese as both club and office, there was "nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced." In the shadow of the tavern there was also the more modest "publick house," whose clients came mainly from the neighborhood. Divided into a public and private saloon bar, the pub usually included a snack bar, called a "snuggery," selling such...
...jury returned a sizable verdict for Edith Soronen, and the defendants appealed. A tavern may be liable to an innocent third person injured by a drunk whom it has helped to tank up, but must it also be its pickled brother's keeper? defendants asked. Yes, the New Jersey Supreme Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could...