Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Closet. Politicians have always been bought and controlled in Japan; but no prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an inn in Kyoto where he was in hiding. They laughed again when Cabinet Member Takeo Kurusu rushed into print with an announcement that he, personally, was not involved with Showa Denko. Next week government agents raided Kurusu's home and slapped him into Kosuge...
...Beds at the Inn. In its little valley, Congonhas seethed more in carnival than worship. Trucks rumbled in to disgorge batches of 40 white-suited pilgrims. Faint after bumping over the rough roads, the country folk pressed into the stalls along the Rua Feliciano Mendes for coffee. Because a big-time operator from Belo Horizonte had rented every room in town and sublet them to prostitutes at $10 a day, the pilgrims slept in the streets, in the churchyard or in trucks...
...years later, back at Williams and still eager to be a Greek, Morton had his "heart's desire" fulfilled. But his stomach's desire was not. Morton endured fraternity food as long as he could, then transferred his patronage to the Williams Inn. By this week, 29 years later, Morton had decided that his stomach had been a sounder guide than his heart. In the Atlantic Monthly, of which he is now associate editor, Morton paid his respects to Fraternity Row in an essay that the Greeks would probably have several words...
...lanky hank of a she in the inn over there...
...Hope. Three days before, Brooks had left his wife Ruth and his daughter Elizabeth vacationing in Maine, and flown to Newark on a last, desperate hope. There he hired a car. He called Watkins at his home in Princeton, asked him to have dinner with him at the Princeton Inn. The shadows lay long on the grass, and the dining room was beginning to fill when Watkins drove up and parked in the drive outside the inn. Brooks walked over...