Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with dollars, a drink costs as little as 25? and a five-course dinner only 80?. American cigarettes come to 11? a package, Argentine steak 25? a lb., a taxi ride across town 10?, a shoe shine 1½?. Outside the capital, tourists can live in a first-class hotel for $1.50 a day, with meals...
...draped, colonnaded ballroom of Paris' decorous Hotel George V, some coals were brought last week to Newcastle. From California, in two specially chartered DC-45, had come manufacturers and models to show Paris the spring styles of San Francisco's up-&-coming clothing industry. The Californians hedged a plush runway with 1,600 Ibs. of chrysanthemums ("blooming three days ago in California"), set up a blinding battery of klieg lights, and surrounded the show with enough hoopla to make the French take notice...
Minor disturbances marked other Dartmouth appearances in Boston, and hotel lobby riots sprung up in the Twenties. With the advent of the Thiries, however, this type of deviltry disappeared; and by 1940, one hotel manager reported that "we never have any trouble," while a nightclub owner declared, "Hell, they don't make no trouble and they don't drink much. Of course, we always find a few beer cans around in the inner court the next morning...
...Green entourage of coaches, trainers, managers and 34 players will hit town today, bedding down tonight at the Hotel Bellevue. The Indians will work out briefly in the Stadium this afternoon...
Randall was dispatched to his post, the Hotel staff said, after Aldrich Durant '04, business manger of the University, had telephoned the day clerk that he feared students might clash with a scheduled AmVets picket...