Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey-haired Mrs. Ruth Ericksen is the owner (with her husband) and the dominant personality of historic Fontainebleau Inn, near Odessa, N.Y. Ericksenian is the table she sets. Ericksenian the way she describes it. For instance...
...this week, east-coast sea traffic survived, but repeated poundings set afire a cluster of grain elevators at Southampton, and King George and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had narrow escapes while visiting troops in the southeast defense zone. An inn near the dugout into which Mr. Churchill ducked was cut in two. The proprietor simply moved his public dartboard to an outer wall and served ale to patrons outside through a hole in the masonry...
...could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift. To the fiddler's bag of tricks, Paganini contributed the left-hand pizzicato (plucked note), the double harmonic, the staccato in which the bow is bounced on the strings. He could fiddle a barnyard scene, once awakened an inn with a lifelike rendition of a baby crying...
...Braunau am Inn there was born a man of humble, obscure parents, who in his time shook Germany and the world to their foundations, who already today belongs to the greatest of all times and who one day . . . will be the greatest of the great. He brought Germany to reason and thereby made us happy. We are convinced he will bring Europe and the world to reason and thereby make Europe and the world happy...
...Count von Arnim, and in 1916 to the second Earl Russell, elder brother of Philosopher Bertrand Russell. After their separation a few years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold Eagle Tavern at Beaufort (pronounced Bufert), S. C. There last week she and her cocker spaniel, Billy, savored the spring...