Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirstiest patron blows the bluenosiest citizen right out of the water, Dan is stripped of his liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds up in a saloonkeeper's heaven on Nob Hill. Like Dan's old tavern, the book is cluttered with all sorts of people-righteous madams, pining widows, pinko artists, lovelorn profs. It plays fast and loose with San Francisco's dignity-not to mention the Dutch master's. But it is big, breezy, and stacked with lusty action-more like a Bruegel than...
...pure evil, the rest of the dancers were good. Karen Wilk wore the mask of hark and skulked about with the mystery necessary for her ultimate metamorphosis. Also part of the palace menage, the guards did what was required, particularly Eleanor Sutherland, who did more. As good were the tavern people...
...both charm and prodigious note-taking. There is one element, however, of his Berlin life which Gunter misses with an indefineable longing--the student-frequented bars and coffee houses. "I would have to be a poet to describe this difference," he states. "There is no comparison between a German tavern and Cronin...
...feast day of St. Scholastica the Virgin, and a bunch of the boys from Oxford University were out on the town. At the tavern called Swyndlestock, they ordered wine, but when John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...
Weston makes something for everyone -slightly salted "Tavern Appetizers," spicy gingersnaps, big "Wagon Wheel" chocolate cream wafers and sweet "Shortcakes" for dessert, breads that go from "Ryvita" health bread to the standard "National Loaf" sandwich bread that is a staple of Britain's diet. Americans might find Weston's most popular bread too off-white and flabby for their taste, but Weston also makes a whiter, crustier loaf, which sells for a few cents more...