Word: fleabag
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...theatrical has-beens and wouldbes of Rome's fleabag Hotel Imperatore, the Countess Sanziani exudes the imposing aura of a famed once-was. For La Sanziani. as Carmela soon learns, was once a legendary courtesan, mistress of a d'Annunzio-like poet, playmate of a Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...
...Skid Row floaters are a primary source of tuberculosis infection, reported the A.M.A. Journal. An eleven-month survey of transients at the Minneapolis Salvation Army Men's Social Service Center revealed a TB rate 55 times greater than the city average. Fatigue, crowded sleeping quarters (in fleabag hotels and charitable institutions), and uncleanliness help make the hoboes TB-prone. Moreover by taking temporary jobs as cooks' helpers and dishwashers, they spread the disease...
...novel's start, Harry Bowers, bald and fiftyish, is on top of the world. The world, for him, consists of the Green Glade, a third-rate fleabag hotel on Prospect...
...world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped from the closet of a Calcutta fleabag rooming house, pistol in hand, just as a Japanese spy was about to knife a U.S. soldier. "I had to kill the spy on the spot," White recalls...
...Break. Like most topflight golfers, Texas-born Lloyd Mangrum started as a caddy. And like most, he found that cracking the pro circuit was a discouraging business. For three straight years Mangrum missed meals, slept in fleabag hotels, and was grateful when he was lucky enough to pick up $50 in a match. In 1940 he got his first break: an invitation to play in Bobby Jones' Masters Tournament. Mangrum, then 25, blazed an opening-round 64, the best recorded up to that time in major-tournament play, and still a Masters record...