Word: hosteler
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...Lisbon, Spanish Pretender Don Juan hit the ceiling of his modest Portuguese hostel. Generalissimo Francisco Franco had propositioned him. The proposition (conveyed by Franco's brother Nicolas, who is Spain's Ambassador to Lisbon): Don Juan's eldest son, 9, should be handed over to the Franco Government to be trained in the principles of "the new Spanish order." Thus the dynasty would serve as a front for Franco, and the princeling would serve as a hostage if the dynasty became troublesome...
...last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept. 23), Faber was ready to take its little niche in journalistic history with such legendary press camps as Paris' Hotel Scribe, the mud-&-stone Press Hostel in Chungking...
...liquor situation was tight too, but a nearby Greek doctor could be counted on to produce his own passable, if unique, make of gin. Generally the atmosphere at the hostel was sober enough. A few correspondents even brought their wives and children. One day all dispatches from China were held up for hours by the birth of a baby...
Just among Fronds. The hostel had one important atmospheric touch-there were banana trees in the yard. When a man got orders to "get out and cover the war," he could always get a snap of himself in pith helmet and shorts, grinning bravely amid the banana fronds, to send his home office...
Lionel ("Old Man") Pratt, the hostel's oldest veteran, had come to China when the Sino-Japanese war (1895) was still big news. The Government had made him secretary-adviser to Madame Chiang Kaishek. Whenever Old China Hand Pratt talked about "the war," newsmen often suspected that he meant the war of 50 years...