Word: inns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other respects, American Samoa -seven volcanic islands and two coral atolls 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii -is trading old romance for new bustle. It has a jet airport and zip code numbers for outlying villages; a Pan Am subsidiary has leased a 100-room tourist inn to compete with the old Rainmaker Hotel. Most striking of all, the whole Samoaft school system has been turned over to television...
Most social activities center around the Middlebury Inn, which boasts room rates as low as $4 per person...
Hayley and her aunt (Joan Greenwood), vacationing at a sunny village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks...
...story tells of a day in the life of Major Cornelius Melody (Ret.), the son of an Irish inn-keeper who once fought bravely under Wellington at the Battle of Talavera. When Melody emigrated, he brought with him the myth that he had formerly been a land-holding aristocrat, now reduced by circumstance to keeping a tavern in America...
...play opens with Sara scheming to marry a young American aristocrat who is sick in bed at the inn. Sara is nursing him back to health. She hates her father because she is convinced his wastefulness prevents her from rising in the world. She hopes marriage to the young gentleman will free her from the poverty of her wretched life...