Word: inns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Brattle has lifted an old skeleton from the Hitchcock closet. Jamaica Inn, which bears little resemblance to the director's usual stock-in-trade, will be locked away by Saturday, however, and perhaps it is just as well. In the meantime, Charles Laughton's performance eases some of the strain created by two hours of frenzied melodrama...
...Bavaria and western Austria, rain fell steadily for two weeks. The Inn, Traun, Enns and Ilz Rivers, swollen and heavy with flotsam, emptied into the surging Danube. At points of confluence, Passau and Linz, there was catastrophe. At Linz, in three days, the Danube doubled in width and tripled in depth, forcing 15,000 people to leave their homes. At Passau the river stage was 40 feet, 22 inches higher than the previous record...
...confession and is sure of a conviction. On their part defense counsel are just as eager to try their cases in the press. Do such shenanigans hinder justice? They certainly do, says the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Civil Rights. At Saranac Inn, N.Y. last week, the Bar Association was considering a committee proposal to stop lawyers from talking to the press. The proposal called for state legislation making it "unlawful" for either prosecutor or defense attorney to talk before trial about evidence in a criminal case...
Those who dodged such books as Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, were probably nailed by the movie versions...
...February day in 1949, however, an elderly American agricultural expert named Walter Eugene Packard drove out to Anthele from Athens. As plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test...