Word: inns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilgrims. As the novel opens, centuries after the curse, the stranger (for the novel names him only in its title) appears suddenly out of a storm, seeking refuge in an inn for medieval pilgrims to the Holy Land. Somewhere upstairs are the rich Christians, with their finery and servants. But the pilgrims among whom the stranger finds himself are a rabble. Some are drunk. Others rob and cheat each other. One girl finances her pilgrimage by sleeping with whichever pilgrim has the price...
...obliged to spend his days clerking in his father's law firm, he spent his nights charming London's nobs and snobs and captivating its kept women. His companions ranged from "Blasted Bet" Wilkinson, a "sad profligate girl" who was an ornament of Wetherby's, an inn where Hickey watched a battle between two half-naked women (he did not approve), to "Silver Tail," whore-in-residence at a sporting tavern, and Fanny Temple, the jeweled mistress of an elderly townsman...
...Hollywood's latest inn-fighting, fading Love Goddess Rita Hayworth, 43, and dour Cinemactor Gary Merrill, 46, chose the celebrity-crowded Au Petit Jean to exchange dialogue that would make longtime California Neighbor Henry Miller blush and that did in fact bring hysterical tears from their dinner companion. Rita's daughter (by the late Aly Khan). Princess Yasmin, 12. Soon bounced from the restaurant, the fractious couple were carted off in separate cars. Next day Rita, who has been capering on two continents with Gary ever since her fifth divorce last September, proclaimed that the Thirty Minutes...
...motor inn, things are different. The motorist can drive up, sign in, and often keep his car right outside his door. In some multifloored motor inns, the guest drives his car up ramps and leaves it outside his room: in other cases, it is parked directly beneath. From the moment he checks in, the guest has direct access from room to car, never has to clean up the children to run the gamut of a lobby, never has to wait for an attendant to bring the car around from the garage...
Taking a lesson from the motor inn's book, the handful of new hotels built or building in recent years make the care and storage of automobiles a major feature...