Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voice of the Turtle" acquired new scenes, more people, and a coy chastity. What was once a one-set, three-character production now boasts Wayne Marris, as many extras as the next epic, and intimate glimpses of New York ranging from a corner grocery store to the Pennsylvania Hotel...
Heartaches are in the air these days and favorable sentiments with them. In keeping with this spirit, there are thousands who are willing to send Valentines to the Band, to show the true nature of their feelings. Yet despite their colorful history Valentines will not buy bus fares or hotel accommodations; and because nothing but sentimental aid is forthcoming, the Band has finally been forced to appeal to the University...
Even the weather was bad. Up to last week it was so cold that one hotel tried to keep its guests' minds off the chilliness by broadcasting northern temperatures over a loudspeaker every half hour. Miami's schools closed down for two days. Then the mercury finally climbed into the high...
...Montreal, 125 protesters met in the dingy, third-floor hall of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees' Union. The chairman, Mrs. Ethel Leigh, told sadly of a delegation which had waited on Finance Minister Douglas Abbott in Ottawa. One delegate had said she had eight children, to which Abbott cracked: "You must do pretty well out of family allowances, eh?" The delegation was not amused. Said Mrs. Leigh: "We intend to increase pressure on the government until they realize that the people of Canada are serious in their protests. We mean business...
...Shake. Other recent Wright projects: a Dallas hotel which, "unlike most commercial hotels . . .is planned chiefly for comfort and entertainment of guests," and a sports club for the Hollywood hills, featuring vast saucers of concrete, cantilevered out from a central shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either...