Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...
Last week the Chemurgicians assembled for their second Dearborn conference. More than 1,200 representatives turned up for the three-day session, about four times as many as last year. Indeed, the conference had to be transferred from the Dearborn Inn to the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. Next to Henry Ford, the most distinguished guest was Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I am here to learn," said that venerable Mormon leader...
...chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house to house for extra supplies. The little inn's solitary waiter nearly died of stage fright...
...JAMAICA INN-Daphne du Maurier- Doubleday Dor an ($2.50). The granddaughter of Trilby's author tells the tale of a hard-headed young woman who becomes involved in a series of hair-raising crimes on the British moors of a hundred years...
...stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo...