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Highwayman Zachary Howard, a Cavalier who had taken to the road during the Puritan succession, once got the great Cromwell himself in his sights, when they both stopped at the same inn. Cromwell was so impressed with Howard's feints of piety that he invited him to come to his chamber that they might say their goodnight prayer together. Howard consented; but once inside the bedroom he exchanged piety for pistols, bound, gagged and robbed the Protector. Then, says one old source, "taking the pan out of a closestool that stood in the room, which happened to be pretty...
Biological Warfare. In Hanau, Germany, when somebody squealed, Hotelman Josef Backhaus brought suit against a competing inn for planting bedbugs in his mattresses...
...Russians promptly stocked up on bread, salami and potatoes, holed up in their quarters at the Cheesemakers' Inn, directly across the street from U.S. Army Intelligence headquarters in Salzburg, and prepared for a long siege. Colonel Alexander Smirnov, the burly chief of the mission, announced moodily that he could not leave until he received orders from Russian headquarters in Vienna. As far as personal relations were concerned, the Russians had gotten along fine in Salzburg - particularly Senior Lieut. Vasily Pivovarov, who had acquired quite a reputation among U.S. Army officers because he always breakfasted on six eggs, four sausages...
...There is no noun of assembly for cats," said the fourth leader. "Scorning to go about in packs or herds or even in a pride, they walk by themselves." Judge Basil Blagden of Cliffords Inn promptly begged to differ. "Sirs," he wrote, "You have, I believe, for once fallen into error ... Cats . . . assemble, on the rare occasions when they do so, in a 'clowder' and kittens in a 'kindle...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...