Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporting players deft. The result is a case of under-playing. Like a tennis player that has lost his nerve and contents himself by merely returning the ball any old way, Miss Cowl simply delivers her lines with painstaking care, hoping, perhaps, that the pleasant atmosphere of the old inn where the scene is laid, and a loyal Boston following will compensate for lack of spark...
...Gehring, 75, neurologist, psychiatrist; of a heart attack; in Bethel, Maine. Many a prominent U. S. businessman, lawyer and physician has consulted Dr. Gehring, taken treatment at his home in the Androscoggin Valley. Setting them to dig potatoes and swim, he relieved their nervous tension. Dr. Gehring and his "inn" were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master of the Inn...
There were plenty of other split pates in Germany last Sunday. In Ketschdorf, near Breslau. a squadron of regular cavalry was called out to capture a band of 150 Communists who had barricaded themselves in an inn after waylaying a truckload of Nazis. There were brawls in Berlin, Cologne, Munich. The situation was serious enough for both Chancellor von Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally...
...incognito with a South African heiress (Elizabeth Allan). He follows her from shop to shop, picking up things she drops; to her hotel (whose dining-room autocrat he is); to the Austrian Tyrol. He is making progress against her sniggers when an incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting him to dinner, establishing him as at least a prince. The girl, as girl to prince, now pooh-poohs social distinctions. Howard agrees but, as headwaiter...
...asset is knowing how to play fine football. Everyone heartily hates him-everyone except his roommate and Rosalie (Madge Evans), the daughter of the chairman of the steel company for which Tony used to work. Even she is shocked when he suggests they spend some time at a secluded inn. But when he plays through the Harvard game all the while threatened with appendicitis, and almost dies therefrom afterward, classmates & Rosalie know at last he is a true...