Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little fireball reformer just didn't know how to relax and have a good time on his vacation. He kept his assistant and his private secretary busy day & night (living at the Rosemary Inn near by they were losing money; Government expense accounts allow by statute only $5 per day). He answered heavy daily mail from Washington, talked long distance two to four times daily with his colleagues, wrote a magazine article on the gasoline problem...
...night last week an explosion rattled the windows of the inn where Dormoy lived. Behind the broken door of his bedroom, Dormoy lay dying on the floor, his head a bloody mess. After he died, the police who were supposed to guard him found fragments of a clockwork bomb under his bed. His enemies had got revenge...
...Pratt place became a restaurant in 1913 when it was purchased and restored by Miss. Frances D. Gage, and open days the Cock Horse Inn. But that time Cambridge had long since parted with her cherished "chestnut three", in favoring of widening Brattle Street. But what the Cock House lacked in hallowed foliage, it made up in wholesome tasty food. Before long its fame as am eating place had spread throughout New England. This to the extent that a rhapsodic passage on "crab meat souffle" a la Cock Horse may still be read in Donald Heinz's "Adventures in Eating...
...more for their 21 meals than Harvard Housters do for 10, $7.56 is what the weekly tax totals in the Hanover Commons. The traditional claim of the Papooses is that the college makes a profit on that figure and uses it to makeup its deficit on the ailing Hanover Inn. "Second semester usually sees several riots precipitated by an unusually poor meal," the editor of "The Dartmouth" admits or boasts...
...Memoriam. In Chester, S.C., J. Foster Carter, happy that the U.S. at last contained a monument to Adam to match Paragraphist Robert Quillan's Fountain Inn, S.C., memorial to Eve, looked upon the adornment to his front yard, said that it was good...