Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political suspects, obtain evidence by methods in which, according to last week's revelations, strong drink and loose women figure. On the night of Oct. 30, according to last week's disclosures, no Tokyo police put on bullet-proof vests and stealthily surrounded an inn at Atami in which eleven Communist leaders were asleep. Ten were seized as they slumbered. The eleventh woke up, shot four policemen, wounded them sorely...
...know of its existence in the U. S. mainly from publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police arrested...
...cockfight in the Canawaugus Inn last week was unusual only because it was interrupted in a way which cockers are usually clever enough to avoid. Otherwise it greatly resembled hundreds of others held every week all over the U. S. where the sport is illegal in almost every state...
GALSWORTHY (John) Inn of Tranquillity...
...shoulder of France, so to speak, in order to learn a few more of the battle cries of freedom. A nobleman, Hugh Buckler; with his man, John Buckler; and one of the Prince's paramours, Miss Cowl, with her maid, Marion Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here, in the character and psychology of each, the audience witnesses the clash of the two philosophies of equality and nobility, modified by the individual class and age. It is a brilliant thought, the depicting of this struggle, but perhaps too difficult for a play that is to be acted rather...