Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vicenza's Juliet castle was turned into a tavern complete with medieval trappings and frescoes illustrating the great love story. A long-faced waiter, who obligingly changed his name from Mario to Romeo, served sentimental vacationists with specially prepared Scaloppe alla Giulietta e Romeo in the dining room. When supper was done, the tourists were led in awe to an upstairs bedroom to gape at Capulet relics that included, said the guides, the very bed in which Juliet had slept. Neither Vicenza nor the tourists cared in the slightest that Verona's tourist bureau stoutly denied the authenticity...
...pass on the way to somewhere else. Manhattan vacationists zip past on the way to seaside villages and resorts. Commuters on the Pennsylvania's gritty Jersey Shore line spend five minutes there every trip, buried in their newspapers or staring glumly at a shabby luncheonette across from a tavern while the electric engine is changed for a steam locomotive. Sprawled along the estuary of the Raritan River, just across the bay from the south tip of Staten Island, South Amboy exists as a kind of service entrance to the Port of New York, and it gets service-entrance traffic...
Last Chance. One night after dinner last week, Charlie Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into the other. There he met Charlie Gargotta, a gunman who was his chief "enforcer." Soon they left. Penna got up to go along. "You don't need to. come, Nick," said Binaggio. "We'll be'back in 15 or 20 minutes...
After the intermission she acted her own "The Wives of Charles II." In this series of historical mores she is able to show the character of the Merry Monarch entirely through the personalities of the men in his life. In succession, Miss Skinner played Charles' mother, a Dutch tavern girl, Lady Chartlemaine, Louise de Queroalle, Nell Gwyn, and Katherine of Braganza. As Nell, the London orange girl who became Drary Lane's leading lady, and then in Nell's own words, "danced her way into the royal bed," she displayed much of the good-natured, earthy charm that must have...
Without fear of proctor and bullers, Oxford's students could drop in at any tavern they pleased, but there was no mad rush. "It's a subtle scheme," complained one undergraduate, "to undermine our illicit pleasures...