Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...APPREHENSIVE DOG-H. C. Bailey-Crime Club ($2). Mr. Reginald Fortune luxuriates at a museum-piece English inn while probing the violent death of a long-absent village siren, whose return to childhood scenes precipitates murder, suicide and confusion among the gentry. Intelligent, well-characterized and done with customary Bailey finesse...
...good, according to Froelich, who was able to give up the business of teaching clumsy Americans how to do "snow plows" and "stem turns," and become a colonist himself. This season he and his rich wife lived in a hunting lodge a mile away from the inn...
...York, they snared Antoine Gazda, Austrian-born inventor, who holds the U.S. rights to Switzerland's Oerlikon cannon, now being manufactured in Providence for the U.S. Navy. At Roosevelt Field Inn on Long Island, county police arrested Baroness Lisette von Kapri, a civilian flyer, born in Rumania, who for the past year has been friendly with student pilots at Roosevelt Field. In Alexandria, Va., the prize was pink-cheeked Kurt Sell, Washington correspondent for Germany's official DNB news agency...
Varsity Squash Racquets Team C vs. Lincoln's Inn...
...morning in 1816 an Englishman with a godlike face and a deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron...