Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action all takes place in twenty-four hours in the Austrian Tyrol, with most of it transpiring in the Rote Hirsh or Reed Deer Inn presided over by a handsome young man. To the Hotel, on her holiday, comes an English school teacher whose life has been atrofied by a lifetime of teaching. The romance between the two lasts only for a day and a night; but during that time there comes for the girl an emotional awakening, a balcony scene taken right from "Romeo and Juliet", tragedy in the discovery of her lover's status as a husband...
...door banged. Alfred Haine who runs a little inn in the village of Marche-les-Dames looked up just at dinner time to see a man in tweeds, very pale, very breathless, but despite his nervousness, very polite...
...friend come back? A tall gentleman, red cheeks, curly hair, a white mustache?" He dove to the telephone again, then went off to continue his search, this time with several helpers. Alfred Haine was told to stay in his inn. At ten o'clock a heavy automobile roared up and then Alfred Haine knew that something dreadful had happened. Out stepped two of King Albert's personal aides, Count Xavier de Grunne and General Baron Jacques de Dixmunde with a doctor. They joined the searching parties crawling over the cliffs, shouting to each other, their flashlights flickering like...
...endowment fund cannot immediately be raised, which is highly likely, Mr. Bingham suggests that the present Varsity Boat House be sold, and the money used for upkeep until the endowment be raised. This boat house is situated on a point said to be a fine site for an inn, and conservative estimates claim that it would bring $15,000 as it stands, which would enable the remainder of Red Top to continue its activity until money had been raised to fund its yearly upkeep. The Variety crew would be quartered in the Freshman house, and the Freshman would be forced...
...Myron Weagle, but in the setting, the vast panorama of American hospitality in 1897 down to the present day. Mr. Lewis has studied with his usual his subject and its settings, from "Westward Ho! Hotel" of New York in the early 1900's to Myron's new modern inn in Connecticut, not forgetting even the Tourist Camp of 1933. It still retains that splendid and vivid connectivity of description which characterized "Babbitt," and he has had the good fortune or the wisdom to choose a subject which has proved, in the "Imperial Palace" and in "Grand Hotel" that...