Word: taverner
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...Americanism, a brew not so effective as it once was, but still heady. "Nobody pushes Canada around," he warned, especially not a nation that took 27 months longer than Canada to enter the Second World War. The Toronto Star accused him of talking like "some alcoholic patriot in a tavern...
...essence of Cornell is freedom," gloats one professor. "You're king of your classroom." Student life is equally free; attendance is not taken after freshman year and upper-class drinking in rooms is unrestricted. The student guidebook even recommends "sour hour" at a local tavern noted for TGIF parties ("Thank goodness it's Friday"). As in White's "godless" day, Cornell still has no religion department. As campus speakers, it welcomes not only
...through seven countries and crossed the U.S. half a dozen times. It was all too incredibly exciting. She sang and danced the night through with genuine gypsies in genuine caves in Granada, sipped chicory coffee at dawn with stevedores on the New Orleans docks, rolled hashish in a Tangier tavern. "I taste of everything the world has to offer," she says. Her tastes run from opera and religious music to modern art, though she takes time out from Baudelaire (which she reads in French) to catch up on Peanuts (which she reads in English...
...lonely public house perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...
...what a fine, manly style of address Johnsonian English really is. Johnsonian English, which has come to mean a sonorous and orotund Latinity of style, anfractuously embellished with dependent clauses like the marble ornaments of a baroque memorial in a Wren church, was as close to the farmyard, the tavern and the brawling life of London streets as it was to the Latin grammar...