Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam Poe knocked on every door in Delaware, Ohio, until he had begged enough money to buy the town's unprofitable stagecoach inn. To the Methodist minister, little Delaware, 20 miles north of Columbus, seemed like the perfect site for a Methodist college...
Beneath her brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...cash, right away. Newsday refused the ad, but ran the story. All at once, Dorothy was famous-well, talked about. Reporters came to interview her, and photographers to take her picture. She submitted with garrulous assurance, was photographed from many angles and in negligee. At a table in the Inn she did some interviewing herself-of the men who thought her worth...
This good little French film has a sentimentality that is too obvious to overlook. But Director Jacques Becker (It Happened at the Inn) has given it such virtues as a gently perceptive camera, unobtrusive realism, and, above all, genuine pathos...
...inn, a short distance east of the old Roosevelt mansion at Hyde Park, is on an 842-acre tract which the partners bought from the Franklin D. Roosevelt estate last year for $85,000. The building, an old remodeled white farmhouse, has rooms for 44 guests, can accommodate 100 diners at a time. Next year the Roosevelts hope to build a much bigger place modeled after F.D.R.'s stone "hideaway house" at Hyde Park...