Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This evening I called the people of this little town together to elect a new mayor. . . . Since I speak German fluently, I opened the meeting, and . . . Herr , owner of the local inn, took over and read a previously made-up list of names for the posts of mayor, assistant mayor, town clerk, treasurer, and town crier. He asked anybody who had any objections to raise his hand...
...Here in London it is a warm spring day, and you know what spring in southern England means. I have been across to Henekey's Bar by the side of Elizabeth's Grays Inn, where a bit of medieval still stands. There among the barrels I have had my beer and sandwich, stunned as if I had lost a personal friend-for it was this morning that we learned you had lost your President...
Congratulations on your good taste in printing the Thomas Hardy poem [TIME, April 23]. How long will it be before "events [will] have freshened [the] old truth" of the Hardy poem which contains the line "Had he and I but met by some old ancient inn...
Modest Proposal. In St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat ran an advertisement: "Help wanted. Cigaret Girl - Gypsy Inn, 1100 S. Eighth. East St. Louis, Ill.; must bring own cigarets." Sidetracked. In Los Angeles...
...historic Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, he skipped his usual Sunday church service, strolled in the warm sun, poked around the old town. He did some work in his room in the Williamsburg Inn, left Monday afternoon...