Word: hiltons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who operates 27 hotels in three nations and will soon open one in Istanbul, only a few miles from the Iron Curtain: U.S. businessmen should take a "calculated risk" and start trading with Iron Curtain nations. "The circulation of food to the hungry of the captive nations would be more effective than H-bombs in the destruction of Communism...
Main Course: Words. At the Conrad Hilton Hotel, 25 C.I.O. pickets barked and yelped as Wilson arrived. They were parading three dogs (hired from a pet shop for $25). At the scheduled dinner hour, Wilson was still hard at work revising his speech; to lull the packed crowd of Republicans, the organist played How Much Is That Doggie in the Window...
...Palace, Sheraton last week picked up Manhattan's 1,500-room McAlpin for $9,000,000, its fifth hotel purchase in two months. Now the No. 2 chain in the country, with 32 hotels with room for 24,000 guests, the Sheraton beat No. 1 Operator Conrad Hilton (with 27 hotels sleeping 30,000) to the Palace by offering Mrs. Johnston about $6,500,000, or some $2,000,000 more than Hilton...
...Mary Hilton knew she probably would not choke to death. She knew the knot and the drop would break her neck and that they would leave her hanging for an hour to be sure that she was dead. Then she thought of Jim, of her face become black and blue, of her "tongue protruding from dry lips that he once kissed." "O God," she thought, "take me out of this terrible place ... I can't go on. I can't stand...
...killing her lover's other mistress in cold blood, Mary Hilton was going to take "the 9 o'clock walk," that morning stroll in which England's condemned cover their last mile. Yield to the Night is the story of Mary Hilton's last three weeks on earth and the price she pays for murder. It is a high price in accumulated terror. The emotions that British Novelist Joan Henry uncovers in her artful portrait of an ignorant but intelligent homicidal type are not profound, but intense...