Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight is to wrap his body, which remains solid, in garb as unprepossessing as he can find. Well aware that when he removes the bindings from his face or the trousers from his legs, there will be nothing there, he takes pleasure in frightening the host of a village inn by doing so. Presently he kills a policeman and then, intoxicated by the certainty that he can commit crimes with no possibility of being detected, he wrecks a train, kills another young doctor whom he has forced to be his partner, plans to make himself a world dictator...
...from one reader of The Weekly Newsmagazine, written upon the letterhead of Hotel Redwood, Bogalusa, we learn that ceilings and bath are provided for the comfort of guests. Here, it would seem, is a service overlooked by Mr. Statler and other inn owners that should be featured in advertising. Who could resist the appeal of a ceiling with every bath...
Chained up for five years outside the Hunter's Inn on Montauk Highway near Brookhaven, L. I. have been two black bears called Cup and Saucer. Their master, Gardner Murdock, is a grizzled oldtimer, gruff but kindly, locally famed as a duck-shooters' guide on Great South...
...last week eleven-year-old Grant Taylor Jr. had saved some apples from his school lunch. Going by the Hunter's Inn he went into the yard and tossed an apple to Saucer, the she bear. He tossed another to Cup. In hunger or jealousy, Saucer lunged to get Cup's apple too. Her worn chain snapped...
...smart enough to sell out many a copper stock she had inherited from her husband, became one of Arizona's wealthiest widows. She kept, however, her Quarter Circle Double X ranch near Williams. Her home is in Tucson, 50 yards down the street from her famed Arizona Inn. That hostelry came into being as a result of her generous interest in disabled veterans. She supplied the government hospital with tools and machinery for making furniture. When a market for the furniture disappeared, she opened the Arizona Inn and furnished it with purchases from the hospital factory...