tavern
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Back at the tavern, the men's meeting is wrapping up.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
At a nearby tavern, a group of men have pulled their chairs into a circle in the dust.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s a potent cocktail made of Coca-Cola and clear spirits that tavern co-owner Owen Walsh drummed up in honor of the unexpected guest that made landfall a few days ago: a charred spacecraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
So instead of going into the tavern I turned and went up the road to the Sanford’s house.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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The “public” would mean ordinary people like colonial patrons of taverns who gathered round to read the proposed Constitution in newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
Unlike taverns and lodges, which were hotels and restaurants as well as bars, saloons were primarily places to drink.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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