Word: dining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E. F. Hutton & Co., who had been paying only $5,000 a year for valuable ground-floor space, were moved upstairs (for the same rent). In their place the original Oak Bar was restored; it now grosses $25,000 a month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year...
...speech, an annual occurance, is unofficial in nature, and usually involves a description of some phase of College life. Before the address, Conant will dine with the newly-elected Union Committee...
...scholar, with a wry Scottish wit and a taste for disreputable tweeds. In lofty, oak-beamed Balliol College hall, undergraduates crowded to hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...
Neat clusters of condiments ornament the tables in the quiet, tobacco-free dining room of South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh...
...Dine...