Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired and wounded the boy in the neck. Moments later, the neighborhood swarmed with outraged Negroes. In the streets and from rooftops, several hundred Negroes hurled stones and bottles at police, as two dozen patrol cars with four dog teams screamed into the area. Negro vandals broke into a tavern, stole whisky and beer, started a fire, and then stoned firemen who answered the alarm...
When two groups of students held sit-in demonstrations here this winter, the white community was forced to realize that there was more to this integration idea than just talk. Although there was only one real "incident' then-a group of students were chased from a roadside tavern back to town, and a week later they were permitted to enter the same place untouched-there may yet be a certain amount of potential difficulty here. The whites have not yet made a major concession to their colored neighbors, and it's difficult to tell how they will accept integration when...
Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Heywood Broun, Henry Cabot Lodge (then a Trib editorial writer), Wolcott Gibbs and Gene Fowler regularly turned up at the peephole, giving rise to its nickname: "the latter-day Mermaid Tavern...
...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