Word: inns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then as the merchants are now. For a long time many refused to sell. When the land was at last procured, cottages, studios and an inn were erected. Nearby a farm was laid out to feed the colonists. Besides painting, classes in furniture-making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists...
...drink, sing and swagger on the 24th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run through which they all had fought. 34 Civil War Veterans of Company B, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, met at an inn at Stillwater. Minn, in 1885. There they organized the Last Man Club, pledged to assemble annually until only one member survived. Into a rosewood box they put a bottle of Burgundy with which the Last Man was to toast his dead comrades...
Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his lawns. Finding guests used this more than they did his $340,000 regular course, he made improvements. Tunnels, bunkers, miniature traps were added. Then he invented a putting green made of cotton seed hulls, sure to wear long and well...
Guests saw the course, paid Mr. Carter to build others in their home cities. The U. S. asked him to design one for a District of Columbia park. At this point a great idea came to the Master of Fairyland Inn. He patented his special greens, the name "Tom Thumb Golf." Patents for his hollow log hazard and other features are pending. Tom Thumb Golf courses became his private property, to use as he would. And he used them shrewdly. A Mr. J. P. Young of Florida, land of many real estate schemes, joined with him and they started...
...they will be out of traffic and of greatest service to the public." To taxi men this law merely defines an unprofitable place to park. They yearn for stands in front of the Paramount and Lafayette theatres after the midnight show break, Small's and Connie's Inn (Harlem night clubs) after 2.30 a.m., and lower Fifth Ave., but at no such spots are public stands allowed. Enterprising independents instruct their drivers how to creep by the choicest spots in the city at the proper moment...