Word: inns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Master of the Inn...
...year 1895. After ten years of practicing surgery in Cleveland, Dr. John George Gehring had become sick. So he moved to Bethel, Me., in the Androscoggin Valley. There he opened an "inn," a kind of private sanitorium. To Dr. Gehring for cure have gone, in the past 32 years, lawyers, doctors, merchant chiefs-victims of overwork. At Dr. Gehring's they found comfort. He would set them to digging potatoes, or planting green peas, or swimming. Or he would let them sit quietly on his Androscoggin porch, looking into the blank distance until after many passive days the White...
...Gehring and his "inn" are the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master of the Inn, written during Writer Herrick's convalescence at Bethel...
...College authorities also evidently kept an eye on charge accounts, as evidenced by the decree that "no Undergraduate shall go or send to any Inn holder or Retailor within three miles of ye College for any strong Beer, Brandy, Rum. Wine or other spirituous Liquors, without paying immediately for ye same...
...Mill (Marion Davies). In a Dutch inn, a scintillant slavey woos the wrong man for her girlfriend's sake, wins the right one (Owen Moore) for her own. But the really important thing about the film is that Marion Davies wears her blonde tresses in two heavy braids and discards the velvets of romantic royalty to charm in the homespuns of domestic Holland...