Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SONGS FROM A COLONIAL TAVERN (Decca) have been chosen from more than 7,000 old ditties unearthed by Taylor Vrooman, who dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
...life of Major Cornelius Melody (Ret.), the son of an Irish inn-keeper who once fought bravely under Wellington at the Battle of Talavera. When Melody emigrated, he brought with him the myth that he had formerly been a land-holding aristocrat, now reduced by circumstance to keeping a tavern in America...
...once entertained a delegation of visiting New York police by stalking into a tavern, miter and all, and ordering a round of beer for his guests; another time, after blessing the fishing fleet at Gloucester, he vaulted aboard one ship and asked the captain to sail him home to Boston. At amusement parks he buys candy kisses for nuns and shamelessly employs a rather widely used gag as he tells them that "they're the only kisses you'll ever get." Hardly a day goes by that Boston Catholics can pick up their papers without seeing...
Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders-including our first President...
...when the Pavilion's Henri Soulé made his U.S. debut at the French pavilion. Moreover, great Curnonskian meals absorb too much time. The smartest way to eat is to bring your own sandwiches or buy a quick one in a place like Liebmann Breweries' oldtime tavern, where a fast beer and a ham on rye cost...