Word: inns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the street, where Epstein's Drugstore now stands, was an inn that housed President George Washington during his visit to Joan Hancock, Harvard 1754. Later Daniel Webster opened his law office in another building on the same site...
Parsons and pubs should sometimes go together. So said Britain's Bishop of Coventry, Dr. Neville Gorton, in a leaflet to his clergy. "The inn is not to be despised, though certainly not to be haunted. It is wise to have one's 'usual' and to pay for it oneself. Men may seem willing to treat one, but they do not like a man who never treats back. They will never believe that we [clergymen] cannot afford...
...ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...
Highwayman Zachary Howard, a Cavalier who had taken to the road during the Puritan succession, once got the great Cromwell himself in his sights, when they both stopped at the same inn. Cromwell was so impressed with Howard's feints of piety that he invited him to come to his chamber that they might say their goodnight prayer together. Howard consented; but once inside the bedroom he exchanged piety for pistols, bound, gagged and robbed the Protector. Then, says one old source, "taking the pan out of a closestool that stood in the room, which happened to be pretty...
Biological Warfare. In Hanau, Germany, when somebody squealed, Hotelman Josef Backhaus brought suit against a competing inn for planting bedbugs in his mattresses...