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Word: fairmont (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairmont--Luncheon, December 27, Fairmont, West Virginia, Secretary, James O. Watson '00, Watson Bldg., Fairmont, West Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Harvard Clubs Throughout Country Will Hold Christmas Holiday Dinners | 12/17/1937 | See Source »

...agency for 150 clerks and clerical workers. Demands of chambermaids, elevator operators, bellhops and the five culinary unions had been granted. But the hotels balked at the clerks on the ground that they were "confidential employes." For nearly three months such famed hostelries as the Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont on Nob Hill, the St. Francis and the Palace (where died Warren G. Harding) have been closed to transient and local trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes & Settlements | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Street, San Francisco's "main stem." Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and conductor swing the tiny car on the turntable until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while the conductor collects 5?-fares (conductors traditionally make wisecracks. Sample: "Conductor, do you stop at the Fairmont?" "Gosh no, lady, not on my pay."). Down one side of the hill the car presently slips, while gripman and conductor heave at brakes, to famed, odoriferous Fisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cable Cars | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Fairmont, W. Va.. James F. Gwynn discovered a reservoir of honey cached by a hive of bees behind his kitchen wall. Ingenious James Gwynn rigged up a pipe line from the hive to his breakfast table, now flavors his hot cakes from a little honey spigot directly above his plate. Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...brought up in Newport, Tenn., Mrs. Eisele and her husband settled on the Minnesota farm with which his prosperous Iowa father dowered them. For the nearby Blue Earth Post they collaborated on The Post Chaise column, which Mr. Eisele carried on when his wife branched out in the Fairmont paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Country Correspondent | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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