Word: barmaid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...coming horrors with remarkable power and prescience. Onetime dirigible builder and airplane manufacturer, Shute is now working at the Admiralty, wrote Landfall in his spare time. It is the story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets out to prove otherwise. Far as possible from a languid Tennessee whittlers' bench are Author Shute and his material, but somehow even in embattled London men go on telling stories...
David stopped before the pub, posted his sandwich men. To an interested crowd he then read aloud an ode of his own contriving. The ode proclaimed his ardent love for Rita Harvey, barmaid...