Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeble-looking man with close-cropped grey hair shuffled up to the proprietor of the Old Orchard Inn at Roslyn, L. I., one evening last week. "I want an inexpensive room." he said. "I can't afford to pay very much...
Outside the inn, the taxi which had brought the old man from nearby Locust Valley rattled away hesitatingly. The driver was wondering where he had seen his passenger before. Was it in Locust Valley? Was it in the newspapers? When he got home next morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where...
...sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls had to be put up that night at an inn, a country club, in homes in Simsbury and Farmington...
...Philippines as Governor General. For the Manila post the President picked Frank Murphy, 40, the redheaded, hard-bitten bachelor Mayor of Detroit. He was an early and ardent pre-convention Roosevelt supporter. An A. E. F. veteran, a lawyer who did post-graduate work at Lincoln's Inn, London, Mayor Murphy has stoutly carried out a liberal relief program in Detroit. So generous was the Mayor with public funds that he will turn his office over to Frank Couzens, president of the Common Council and 31-year-old son of Michigan's Senator, with the municipal treasury badly...
Three weeks ago he telegraphed from Salzburg in terror, begging Capt. Roehm's forgiveness. There was no answer. Early last week two motor cars full of young Nazis found the village of Durchholzen where Dr. Bell was hiding. Servants at the inn heard a violent argument in his bedroom. Two Nazis came downstairs, went outside to confer with their friends. Suddenly the telephone line was cut. One huge young man with a pale face and staring eyes went back upstairs alone. There were shots in Dr. Bell's bedroom. A porter, rushing up in his green apron...