Word: hosteler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking TIME'S office was nothing but bamboo and mud and contained the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down. It had a fine bomb shelter and Teddy White was sort of used to it; now he lives in one room at the Press Hostel, where he pays something like 50,000 Chinese dollars a month for room and board. TIME'S office in Moscow is also just one big room - this one with a balcony on the fourth floor of the rambling old Metropole Hotel (ten minutes from the Foreign Office, five minutes from the Kremlin...
...exactly 1 o'clock of the 22nd day of this year's last month (reckoned by the Chinese lunar calendar) winter ends. Every such calendar has this day plainly marked. It says: "Eggs will stand upon their ends." Improbable though it seems, so they did. The Press Hostel compound was dotted with eggs foolishly, standing on end. Which end seemed to be of little concern to the eggs; they were erect on either their small ends or their large ends, and sometimes they even showed off by holding a leaning-tower stance...
Jack Cornwall led a group to Hampton where the low flying clouds were so dense that even the fair indigenes remained hidden. Bunking up three to a single at a local hostel, they returned at eleven hundred on the "L" muttering things about Boston hospitality...
With two bamboo and plaster dormitories, classrooms in the bombproof Press Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...
...third-ranking prelate, the Bishop of London. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher let it be known that he, too, had begun negotiations with the commissioners to halve his own salary ($40,000), revamp ancient 44-room Fulham Palace, keep a few rooms for himself, turn the rest into a diocesan hostel...