Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, Jamaica Inn, did not quite come off, due to friction between the bulgy Hitchcock and the bulky Charles Laughton egos. This time Hitchcock does it all his way, does a splendid job and has a splendid cast to do it with...
...midst of this stertorous and priapic life, in a house so crowded that travelers mistook it for an inn, Aretino cranked out an enormous mass of writing -plays, letters, parody horoscopes, obscene dialogues, an uninspired epic, religious tracts, florid and fulsome eulogies...
...which homeless or troubled men of all faiths may go. Every guest is called Brother Christopher (for the patron saint of wayfarers) . The Broth ers Christopher, who have included arti sans of all kinds, built most of the buildings on the hill. St. Christopher's Inn, housing 200 men, has become too small, is to have a five-story addition. Last year the friars handed out 175,000 meals. No questions are asked of any Brother Chris topher except his name and the name of his next of kin. The friars, supported by outside donations, give their lodgers...
...main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor, in Lanarkshire. An inn proprietor put them up, rationed her small supply of food, then four days later frantically telephoned an S O S to Glasgow: "We are absolutely starving...
Coach Jack Barnaby's young army of racquet wielders has five different encounters scheduled this week for five different Crimson teams. The A team meets the University Club A; the B meets Lincoln's Inn B; the C faces Tufts; the Freshman C opposes the University Club C; and the Freshman D tackles the University Club D outfit...