Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most magnificent master of the swearword who ever inhabited Kings Tavern was a bricklayer who was also an accomplished artist, painting in oils and watercolors. He swore in multi-syllables, interspersed profanity between dictionary words, such as: "This is the most non-Goddamn-son-ofabitching-sensical suggestions I ever heard of!" Nobody since Joseph Pulitzer Sr., who invented multi-syllable swearing, had heard such poetic loquacity...
...that the place wasn't one oferuditeness and respectability. Once two Harvard professors were sipping a beer in the Kings Tavern and arguing about the Etruscan Wars...
Eddie St. Louis, a very large man who once played in the backfield for the Pittsburgh Stealers so long ago that pro football was not a paying proposition-30 or 40 years ago-remembers many a convivial round in the Kings Tavern with Ed Lahey. Lahey was a member of the first Nieman Fellowship Class in 1938. Once in a while Tom LaVelle, one of the seven mules in the line ahead of Notre Dame's immortal Four Horsemen, would join them...
Nick Harris has moved the Kings Tavern, Men's Bar, right down into the basement. Henceforth, it will be called simply "Kings" and it will have queens too, youthful, longhaired lovely young things along with earnest and jolly bearded beer drinkers, an entirely new crowd and altogether foreign to the tastes of the old-timers...
...Kings Tavern draft is known far and wide. It is so good that one of United Airlines' brochures urges visitors to be sure to visit Kings Tavern in Harvard Square and sample the draft beer, and newspapers from as far away as San Francisco have printed laudatory articles about the beer...