Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...
Readers will not have to dig much farther than this into The King's General to know that Daphne du Maurier has again struck pay dirt in the same lode that produced her best-selling Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her new novel (the Literary Guild's January selection) is a hose-and-doublet pageant of the English Civil War (1642 to 1646) for which Miss du Maurier's agent has whispered loudly to Hollywood that $250,000 will do. The chief characters of The King's General are mostly out of English history; .heir lusty, gusty...
Innkeeper's Delight. Composer Vejvoda, 43 and balding, now runs a pleasant plaster inn on the banks of the Vltava. In his prosperity, he owns two 20-piece bands...
Last week for the first time Composer Vejvoda heard Lyricist Lew Brown's malty English lyrics translated by a U.S. newsman. As he drew beers for customers in his inn, he smiled appreciatively. "You know, those are better words for a song written by an innkeeper," he told the newsman. "Have another one on the house...
...Alfred Duff Cooper, impeccable British Ambassador to France, gave a peccant Riviera innkeeper a nice demonstration of the retort diplomatic. The Ambassador, his Lady, and a motoring party of six friends lunched at the inn, got a bill for 16,000 francs (about $320). The Ambassador wrote his name on the bill, tucked it in an envelope addressed to the regional authority on price control, and called the headwaiter. "Would you be so kind as to send this," he murmured, arose, and departed...