1.   His only modest joy in life comes from playing trombone with a third-rate jazz band in a seedy neighborhood pub.

2.   And in every city he visits, he usually finds time to drop down to the closest neighborhood pub and soak up a little local color.

3.   And off-duty police officers are paying for their own drinks at neighborhood pubs again.

4.   Anyway, the neighborhood pubs stayed open a little longer Saturday night.

5.   But ... an Irish guy walks into an Irish neighborhood pub and he starts talking and singing and becoming jovial and friendly with all the customers there.

6.   Suppose the bartender in a black neighborhood pub admires the Nation of Islam.

7.   We gained weight scandalously, both from sumptuous dinners in elegant restaurants and from lunches in neighborhood pubs.

8.   With the mob now vanished, the Half King looked like just another sleepy neighborhood pub starved for business on a dead Friday night.

9.   Overweight and underhyped, smoking a cigar between shots, he looked more like he belonged on a stool in the neighborhood pub.