SWEARS BY HIS RECORD
35 YEARS WITHOUT AN OATH.
Thirty-five years as an hotel landlord and never a swear-word—that is the record of Mr Freddy Goodman, host of the Anchor Hotel, South Brent, who retired recently.
When he-first came to the Anchor he offered a sovereign to the first man who heard him use a swear word. The sovereign, now a cherished possession, has never been won. " There was a time when everybody in the village was out to win the sovereign," he told a Sunday Chronicle correspondent. " Customers staged fights in the bar to make me ratty in the hope that I'd say something which wasn't quite nice. At other times they would try to insult me, but no one ever caught me napping.
" Before I started in this business I spent several years in the Navy, and I heard enough ' ripe' language to last me a lifetime."
Mr Goodman is a typical old English inn-keeper with jolly red cheeks and an epicure's palate for good ale. " I enjoy life," he says, " and why people want to swear at every turn beats me."
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3327, 25 July 1931, Page 2
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