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Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Palo & Piñata. This week, as always, the highlight of each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Posada Time | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Invitation. In Haleiwa, T.H., burglars approached the closed rear door of the Crash Inn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...September night in 1931, a doe-eyed young woman in a green evening dress, bored with a gay party at Honolulu's Aia Wai Inn, wandered outside and along John Ena Road. She was the wife of a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and her name was Thalia Massie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Knock on the Door | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Greatest Story Ever Told (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). Fourth in a cycle of five Christmas programs: No Room at the Inn, the story of the Nativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Christmas Program Preview | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Since V-J day, the inn and Palm Springs have boomed as never before. The 115 assorted hotels, luxury auto courts and apartment hotels will take care of between 40,000 and 50,000 guests between now and next May. The inn alone, which charges from $15 to $25 a day for a single room with meals, hopes to gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Neflie's Boarding House | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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