Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night Porter Antonino Cappelli, as few as three titled families would fill the whole hotel with their retinues, and it took a mule train to fetch their belongings from the railroad station. Now spring and summer are the busy months, and, says Cappelli, "today they come with a flight bag containing a change of underwear." ¶ Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence...
...Florida insurance man who travels frequently by air has a novel way of keeping close to his large suitcase. He arrives at the airport with the bag manacled to his wrist. "Cape Kennedy courier-top security" he whispers to the gate attendant, whereupon man and luggage emplane, hand in handle...
Airlines officials like to farm out at least a little of the blame. "When 20 grey Samsonite bags are sitting on a delivery carousel," says a TWA man, "it is quite conceivable that Jane Roe is going to pick up John Doe's bag. And if she does not, there could always be some con man waiting around who will...
When the carrier is at fault-as when a clerk slaps a Carson City ticket on a bag headed for Chicago-the errant luggage is pursued relentlessly. When it can finally be established that a piece is lost, financial settlement is made. Naturally, people try to pull a fast one once in a while. A man arrives at the airport, does not feel like waiting around for a few minutes to claim his luggage, and then complains to the airline from his hotel. Right or wrong, he gets his bag custom-delivered to his room...
...principals hardly do the lines justice, but many of the secondaries do. Lawrence Senelick has studied his Pistols and Shallows until he has assembled the whole bag of Shakespearean character tricks, and he executes them perfectly. John Lithgow makes an engaging brother to Tom Jones, who carries off the villain's part with great authority. And Sheila Hart, if she would sharpen her diction a bit, would make a perfect world-weary mother...