Word: tavernes
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...Radcliffe and two Harvard students spent a night in jail Saturday following an "after-hours" raid upon a "home-made" basement tavern in Roxbury by police...
...form of human expression that contains "beauty, truth, and relevance." Since it is transmitted orally, balladry provides important clues to the history of the epic; the late Milman Parry, a Harvard philologist, devoted his energy to the recording of Yugoslavian folk ballads of legendary heroes from the lips of tavern minstrels...
...Bottom. In Milwaukee, Howard G. Rivers Jr. masked his face with one of his baby's diapers, got caught robbing the Bottoms-Up tavern...
...family, is a canny millionaire-in-the-making and a guilt-ridden lecher who loses successive mistresses to his wife's beagle-eyed sleuthing. Dave cannot stand the pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool...
Gein's explanation of the Worden murder and mutilation: "I was sort of in a daze-like." Under questioning, with the aid of the state crime laboratory's lie detector, he admitted one other murder: the shooting of Mary Hogan, 54, a divorcee tavern keeper who had disappeared from nearby Bancroft three years before. Her face mask could not at first be identified among the remains. All the rest, Gein insisted, he had got by opening fresh graves in nearby cemeteries (he watched the obituaries for prospects). Usually he took only the head and some other parts of the body...