Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold and hungry with his brood, died penniless (in 1666) at the age of 86. In good times he would march off to the club, being fond of music, beer and jolly company. His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table...
Cotton Cloth. The tunic tradition goes back to Flavia Helena, wife of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (he is said to have picked her up in a Balkan tavern during one of his campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler...
...promising career in theater design. But art drew him back to Rome, where he conceived the best pictures in last week's show-austere descriptions in ink of the city's dark and quiet corners: a hand laundry where only the linen sparkles, an empty tavern where the chairs seem to converse...
...make matters worse, two years ago Texas Attorney General Will Wilson cracked down on vice, padlocked gambling joints and brothels, arrested tavern owners, dumped most of Galveston's slot machines into the Gulf of Mexico. Sin has had tough going since then, what with the presence of two Texas Rangers and spot raids by state liquor agents, and the madams, hoodlums and gambling interests have never felt the same about George Clough, who allowed it all to happen...
...rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy, 240 beer...