Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anthony's mother was the wife of Machiavellian Don Luis da Vincitata, but Don Luis was not his father. His mother died in the wintry Alpine inn where she bore him; his reckless young father saw the point of Don Luis' swordsmanship too late. The nameless orphan was deposited anonymously by Don Luis at a Livorno convent. After a peaceful childhood there he was adopted by old John Bonnyfeather. Scottish merchant in Livorno and actually his grandfather. Both suspected their relationship but neither, out of respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony...
...shrewd and amusing businessman whose friends range from Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Accordionist Phil Baker, he owns the quiet, fashionable Ambassador East, the gayer Ambassador West where Ernie Byfield entertains leading stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly...
...have not had to swallow a few times already you probably will during the final scene in which father and son get acquainted for the first time over an inn table, find that they have a great deal in common, both loathing the same woman...
...John Pierpont Morgan who died in Rome before the War was descended from a line of wealthy New England traders. His grandfather, Joseph Morgan, had kept an inn and had been a pioneer in the extremely lucrative insurance business of Hartford, Conn. John Pierpont Morgan went to New York as a private banker. In 1894 he took partners forming the present firm. In the following years, as everyone knows, he performed dazzling feats of finance on a scale unprecedented. These included the formation of U. S. Steel and many another of the greatest corporations which have made a large part...
Speeding to the inn came Boykin Cabell Wright, Bankster Harriman's son-in-law who asked to be left alone with the old man. Since Harriman was out on bail, the police had no jurisdiction over him. They withdrew. Then Harriman asked Wright to step out too while he dressed...