Word: inns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether its Junior Prom or Charity Ball, or even a weekday date, a well-recommended way to a Smith girl's heart is through her stomach. Rahar's Inn, served by popular "Murph," is the handiest, while Wiggins Old Tavern is nice, in a plush fashion. For beer, pizza, and "atmosphere," the girls like Joe's, but the mountain-top Log Cabin or the Sportsman's Club provide a full meal or dancing...
...admitted that he regularly escorted the night's cash from the downtown bank to two gambling clubs. He got $10 a day for this service, he said, from the Piping Rock Club (where Costello used to own a piece) and $50 a week from the Arrowhead Inn, where Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis and Detroit's Lefty Clark run the tables...
Lundsgard the Magnificent. "Oh, let yourself be happy!" cries Hayden to himself, and falls in love, first with the city of Florence, and second with a Midwestern female scholar named Dr. Olivia Lomond. The affair with Olivia reaches its decisive stage in a chilly mountain inn. Gushes Hayden: "I'm not fit to love you!" Counters Olivia: "The wild highlander in me has come to life again . . . thank God. Dearest Hayden . . . quit smothering yourself...
...found that Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis are busily engaged with dice games in New Jersey and roulette in Miami. Philadelphia's Dave Glass and Cleveland's Al Polizzi are partners in Miami Beach's Sands Hotel. New York's Frank Erickson shared the Colonial Inn in Hallandale, Fla. with Detroit's Mert Wertheimer; Cleveland's Tommy McGinty has "maybe $1,500,000" in Las Vegas' Desert Inn...
...Jamaica Inn," Laughton is an epicurcan squire who supports his expensive tastes by wrecking ships and plundering them. His finery does not smother his heartiness, and he has some rich speeches about his own good taste and the inequality of man. Content here is in the pure wonder of a brimming glass of brandy. For his associates, Laughton has only his half-lidded contemptuous glance and a derisive sneer: "there is no one like me." He was right...