innkeeper

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Often have I recalled the scene in John Buchan’s spy thriller “The 39 Steps” when the protagonist, Richard Hannay, tells his true but unlikely story to an innkeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“Perhaps Jack the boarder had seeded his own rumors,” the innkeeper observes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Audience members also got a glimpse of Olivia Colman as a Cockney innkeeper and Sally Hawkins as Wonka's mother.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2023

The later show, which featured Newhart as a Vermont innkeeper, ended with him waking up in Chicago next to his on-screen wife from “The Bob Newhart Show,” revealing the second series to be dream.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The innkeeper tells him that Vincent is in his room, number five, on the top floor, opposite the stairs.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman