tavern
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And so Washington’s authority was solidified when Lee, clad in a shirt and slippers, was surprised in a New Jersey tavern and captured.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
She said of tertulias, the literary debates that took over an evening in a home or tavern, “they certainly ate, but above all, they drank and debated passionately.”
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Betsy Read came into the tavern a half hour later.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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Hospitality veteran Clemens Keller insists that Vienna's storied "heuriger" winemakers' taverns -- which face a hangover-inducing brew of real estate speculation, spiralling costs and climate change -- cannot rely on their illustrious past.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
"It's coming to a point now where we are going to lose some of our inns and taverns, never to be returned," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Not a place of legend, but a supply line for the other taverns.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
His Uncle Frank telling jokes from behind the bar in one of these taverns first piqued Dreesen’s interest in comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
It was noon, and all over Boston work had stopped and everyone, except himself, had either gone home for dinner or to one of the famous taverns.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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