Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, arrested while hacking at a fire hydrant with an ax. James Boyle explained in court: "I found the ax on my way home from a tavern and just couldn't resist the impulse to chop something down. I used to be in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...Whittle, it developed, had been so busy tending a tavern she had just opened in nearby Half Day that for a fortnight she had had no time to tend her dogs. Great was her indignation when she was served with a warrant sworn by Mrs. McLaughlin charging cruelty to animals. "This," cried Mrs. McLaughlin to a Deerfield Justice of the Peace last week, "is the most inhumane case that ever came to my attention...
...Randall, Wis., having abolished property taxes, granted liberal appropriations for road, bridge and culvert repairs, Town Chairman George Dean called a town meeting to decide how to spend Randall's $16,000 surplus from tavern, cigaret and utility taxes. Moaned he: "It's got me licked...
...cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two students of what is now Northwestern University snatched a body from a Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students drove up on their way to snatch another Wisconsin corpse. Quick-witted, they transferred the Northwestern cadaver to their buggy. One drove away to Chicago, the other got into the Northwestern buggy, pretended he was the corpse...
...with Nazi bigwigs or Communist bureaucrats; nor does it attempt to count the number of guns in the Italian navy or the execution decrees in Stalin's desk drawer. It is a series of highly poignant snapshots of life on the Continent: conversations with young Russians, glimpses of a tavern in southern England, military maneuvers at Bad Nauheim. From these extremely natural sources uncovered through casual travel and occasional chatting Mr. Millis has distilled a convincing analysis of the various national points of view...