Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Book recommenders cramp my bowels," said the middle-aged cynic, and turned away. But there had been a time when he was young, when the Soon-to-be Lost Generation trooped to the local tavern and lit candles to a literary icon most of us have now forgotten...
...comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better"), and in Williamsburg, Va.. true to the colonial spirit, he draped himself in a yard-square bib for a roaring good feast at the King's Arms Tavern...
...Hall they heard so much noise coming from the second floor that they thought a fight was in progress. Entering the building, they went upstairs, where they found "eight or ten young fellows, sitting around, smoking tobacco" in a smoke-filled room that to them looked more like a tavern than a college chamber...
Schnell Bier. In Auerbach, West Germany, a tavern owner got a letter from the United States containing 6? from a tourist who said he had forgotten to pay for a beer...
...band, I was the 14th trumpet"). When he hit the top, he called the tune: nobody, from Liberace to Rubinstein, it turned out. could play an instrument for pay in the U.S. without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly for political favors, and "suggested" to 23 bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring. Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, that they bring their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. They all came, and with them the orchestras...