Word: inns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite campaign target, Vice President Nixon, by inviting a sudden-death competition in their own ranks. Immediately after the convention nominated him, Stevenson went to a two-room suite (decorated with prints of American birds, e.g., the black-billed cuckoo and the boat-tailed grackle) in the Stock Yard Inn, next to the convention amphitheater, to talk over his decision with Democratic leaders...
...Doesn't Pick . . ." Waiting at the inn were his campaign manager, Jim Finnegan (see box), and his old political sponsor, Chicago's Jacob Arvey. Their private discussion of the pros and cons of Adlai's open-race plan floated over an open transom...
...intermittent narration, and in numerous speeches by Ahab that are taken almost verbatim from the book. At the same time, realizing that the camera and the pen are by no means interchangeable storytellers, they have not hesitated to take beneficial liberties with the novel. In Peter Coffin's Inn they have inserted a drinking scene that instantly captures the character and spirit of the whaling men. Where Melville needed whole chapters to describe the processing of the whale's flesh--chapters which in most abridgments and adaptations are the first to go--Huston's camera in one shot imparts...
...first syllable demand an. "I believe," said he, "that every one of your Lordships would say 'a Harrow boy,' but would also speak of 'an Harrovian.' " But what, asked Lord Rea, would Lord Conesford do with one-syllable words? "In the case of an inn sign of a public house, would he look at it as 'A Horse and a Hound' or 'An Orse and an Ound'?" Lord Merthyr fell back on no less an authority than Fowler to prove that an hotel would be hopelessly old-fashioned-but to no avail...
...steak and drinks were on the house. The sated crowd in the main ballroom of Las Vegas' Desert Inn pushed heavily back from the tables and lit up complimentary cigars. Then, to a man, they reached for their checkbooks. These were no ordinary freeloaders; these were fast-money boys, big gamblers, high rollers. They were assembled to buy shares of the pot in the Desert Inn's fourth annual Tournament of Champions...