Word: brunswick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brunswick Hotel, Boston's famous hostelry of presidents, dukes, princes, and elite of the 1870s, 80s, and 90s is opening its doors again this fall-but this time for Ex-Gls and their wives...
...Completely refurbished" for the Nth time in its history, and now minus some of the glitter that once added luxury to accommodations for early-day guests, the Old Brunswick remains a Grand Hotel, working full-time, serving as a home for Harvard University veteran-student couples...
...million dollars were poured into the Brunswick's construction, when red brick and sandstone were originally mortered together on the corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets in 1874. And this summer, after the hotel had for nearly 70 years catered to what an 1880 advertisement called "influential persons of taste," the University invested another $25,000 to revamp the marble-floored hallways, high-ceilings bedchambers, and tiny-tubbed bathrooms, into suitable apartments for 115 couples who need, as well as a place to go to school, a place to live, in Post War year...
...student dormitory, the Brunswick has its strong points. Most residents agree that they have more room than they ever had before, and seem thankful for the spaciousness that a Brunswick suite assures. "It's heaven for us," sighs Dorothy Sparks, whose husband, bill '46, is a math concentrator and plans to enter Law School in February...
...measuring 3 1-2 feet in length, an old-fashioned pull-chain toilet, and a marble washstand. Paul Miller '46 and his wife, Marjorie, have one of the few suites which is equipped with a shower. Necessarily, too, claims Miller, who measures 6 feet-seven, a height which Brunswick tubs were obviously not designed to accommodate...