Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero of the novel is Myron angle, as uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story...
...college in the Nationals two years ago, are still contesting the last two positions. So far the results of the tryouts have been as follows: Howes defeated Archibald Cox '34, and lost in turn to J. M. Hall; Hall, who has been playing on the Lincoln's Inn team, defeated Bowditch, of the Graduates' team, before playing Howes; in the lower bracket, Hartford and Clark have successfully defeated Amos Eno, W. B. Hodges, and H. Black, and are to meet and decide the fourth place on the team; the loser of the match will play Howes for fifth place...
Meantime poor but honest Myron has discovered his career (hotelkeeping) and his ambition (to build and run the Perfect Inn). Through long and unamusing years he works his way up through every job in every kind of hotel until he is making good pay as an expert with a reputation. Then he sinks everything into his Perfect Inn, only to face failure when a murder and suicide on the gala opening night give the place a noisome name. Bloody but unbowed, Myron goes back to an underling's job. The story ends with his running a country hotel...
When he writes of the fortuitous tragedy that wrecked Myron's inn. Author Sinclair reports it as he thinks TIME would have...
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