Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants a slave. They treat their women like dirt-worse than dirt. They slug them and spit in their faces and then go off and leave them at home while they go sit in these coffee houses. Even before we left Tacoma, he used to go out to a tavern some nights and leave me at home with baby. I told him I wouldn't stand for that, and I asked if he'd leave me at home alone when we got to Iraq. 'Oh no,' he said, 'I promise I'll never leave...
Questioned yesterday, one local tavern proprietor described his Convention-watching customers as "not as wild" but "much more intent" than the people who flock to bar television sets for such events as the World Series...
...reality, like Thomas Smith, but as an apparition. Shrewd as J. P. Morgan, straight as Queen Victoria, she rises out of the night, holding her book like a scepter. The ancient well merited her haunting memorial. One of Boston's original settlers, she bore twelve children, kept a tavern and lived to be 105, surviving all of her generation...
...tavern near West Point in the 1820s and was, according to Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, the "only soul in the entire Godforsaken place." Mellowed by Havens' hot ale flips, cadets used to sing (to the tune of The Wearing of the Green) their unofficial West Point song: Come fill your glasses, fellows, and stand up in a row, To singing sentimentally we're going for to go; In the army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow, So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens...
...Show. In Des Moines, Federal revenooers socked Barmaid Ruth Shepler with a claim for $44,693.84 in back taxes, insisted that her feat of balancing two to four glasses of beer on her breasts as she goes about her work constitutes "entertainment," thus subjects her tavern to the 20% U.S. cabaret...