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Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous, she is attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feminine Ripples | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...second squash game yesterday the varsity "C" team topped the Law School's Lincoln's Inn Society 4 to 1 in a state "C" league match. The Crimson swept all but the first set of the five-set series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Meets Amherst, Dartmouth | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...story is about what you would expect in a second-rate comic opera. A proper Bostonian (Sinatra) arrives in Spanish-owned California to take over an inn and a gang of bandits inherited from his father. The rootin'-tootin' father had been bored with innkeeping, but he was a great hand at banditry and kissing the women he robbed. The son is a shaky beanpole who falls off his horse at the drop of a hoof. He is afraid of guns and women, but anxious to see that the inn has plenty of clean sheets and towels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...have always regarded a good innkeeper as a real benefactor to the community," wrote the Rev. E. A. Newman, vicar of Hythe in Kent, in his parish paper, "and a well-run inn ... as a useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Marks of Christianity | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered to show him everything-including a brand-new "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit in the library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Moon Is Green | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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