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Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little town of Carpineti in Emilia, a frustrated Communist named Guerrino Costi peered through an inn window at a party of celebrating antiCommunists, fired several shots into the crowd, killing two. When cops grabbed him, Costi said: "I wanted to teach a lesson to the parish priest and the Christian Democrat reactionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Clamorous Defect | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Sentinel's 1955 show, after a week of watching him work their pond, the authorities finally decided that Jerry was a public nuisance, and refused to sell him another ticket. Jerry's father, who had been serving the boy's catch at his New Colony Inn in Milwaukee, promptly got a court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Terror of the Trout | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Flame of the Inn is dim tonight- Too many vacant chairs- The sun has lost too much of its light- Too many songs have taken flight- Too many ghosts on the stairs- Charon-here's to you-as man against man- I wish I could pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...checks his props, takes his seat by the fireplace, opens a book on his lap. Backstage voices are hushed. In the darkness behind the study, the set for Scene 2 is all ready to be pulled into place: three sideshow stalls, a circular bandstand, the entrance to the Bacchus Inn. The chorus files in and Chorus Master Walter Taussig mounts a stepladder that is steadied by a stagehand. When he reaches eye level with a small hole in the canvas sidewall of Faust's study-through which he will be able to watch the conductor-Taussig opens his score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backstage at the Met | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Capital Expansion. In Copenhagen, Denmark, church wardens of the Vissenbjerg Unen parish announced they were getting a liquor license for an inn which has lost money ever since they converted it to a temperance hotel 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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