Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trustless of their own experience, the Puritans had gotten best at minding other people's business. At the taverns, which followed the cows to Boston, the constable's duty was to see that nobody drank "more than was good for him." In time, however, some did, and the taverns caused various disturbances with England, including a war. In 1747, when a fire turned the General Court into a street, its members met at the Royal Exchange tavern where, later, the only duel ever to be fought on Boston Common was started...
Twenty years later John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
London, one entire section of the city was burned down except for a local tavern, which stood intact, surrounded by gutted buildings. So the grateful innkeeper renamed his pub The God Encompasses...
...murky section of London that takes its name from the long-departed Elephant and Castle Tavern,* exuberant Teds rioted for three consecutive nights, crashed in the door of one theater, streamed through neighborhood streets and taverns, smashed windows, threw bottles, heaved automobiles over on their sides. In Manchester the Teds ripped out the seats of a movie house, tossed light bulbs about, and turned a fire hose on objecting members of the audience...
Barman's Holiday. In Paterson, N.J., returning to her tavern after a month's vacation, Mrs. Arlene Bassano discovered that Manager Robert Cunningham had given away or downed its entire $700 stock, was under treatment at a center for alcoholics...