Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to popular belief, Nathaniel Ames, and not Ben Franklin, published the best colonial almanac. A Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
...Awful Truth" is that our heroine has been forced to spend the night with her music teacher in a wayside inn under perfectly honorable circumstances, but can't convince her husband of just how honorable it all was. In fact, she has a hard time convincing the audience. As a result she has to sue for divorce, and play the old, old role of the woman who wins her man by telling him how much she hates...
...about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance. She is married off to one Gomar t'Joens, and Gomar -a typical Walloon peasant, roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket, Karelina's life sinks to that of a drudge in a roistering, rustic underworld. She escapes, hunts up Uncle Domitien. Gomar pursues and reclaims her-but not before...
...Garrick invited to Paris to appear with the Comédie Française in 1750. Preceding him there flies the rumor that he is coming over to teach the Frenchmen how to act. The angered members of the French company prepare an extravagant hoax, take over an inn Garrick must stop at en route, man it with players from their troupe. Plan is to give Garrick an alarmingly warm welcome. Tipped off, Garrick and his man Tubby (E. E. Horton) affect serene indifference to the staged hubbub...
...President Boomer's idea, the art exhibition was suggested by a 29-year-old German girl named Maja B. (for Johanna)* Geek, a secretary in the Waldorf's foreign department. Herself the owner of an inn in Baden-Baden, placid Miss Geek has been greeting German, French and Italian visitors for the Waldorf since 1932. She arranged her first Waldorf workers' show last year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas...