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Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Zinder spent Christmas Day in Bethlehem in Judea, watching the thousands of pilgrims (so many of them American boys and girls in uniform this year) who flock to worship above the manger where Christ was laid when there was no room for Mary and Joseph at the inn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...patiently waiting, and between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning presented The Barretts of Wimpole Street, sustained only by one egg rustled up for her at 2 a.m. by Producer Guthrie McClintic. There is a story about Editor Robert Quillen, who used to spice his Fountain Inn (S.C.) Tribune with genealogical notices like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's End | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Disciples of Christ Chaplains met at the Cock Horse Inn last night for a dinner, at which the Reverend Percy Austin, minister of the Christian Church, Everett, was guest of honor, Chaplain Ellwood C. Nance, of the Faculty of the Chaplain School, presided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifty Chaplains to Meet at Epworth Methodist Church | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

...played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant). For years he set the beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...back the two women stopped at an inn. William Gray, an R.A.F. pilot who did not get away at Dunkirk, was hiding there. The proprietor did not want Gray to stay; if he left, the Nazis would capture him. Kitty and Mrs. Shiber secreted him in the luggage compartment of their car, got him into their Paris apartment before they fully realized the risk they had taken, or knew what they would do with Pilot Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soldier Snafcher | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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