Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman a sure thing for the Democratic nomination in 1948, the nation's cartoonists turned their pens on the nation's best political show-the scramble for the Republican nomination. Convention time was still ten months off. But in country clubs and barrooms, from picnic grounds and hotel rooms, the hum of politicking rose above the land as candidates angled for delegates...
...gulp up a convention crowd as easily as a sword swallower taking an aspirin tablet. But last week, as 250,000 members of the American Legion poured in for their biggest national convention since Pearl Harbor, the Big City cleared for action. It moved everything movable out of hotel lobbies, boarded up plate-glass windows, ordered its cops to be especially paternal, and then, as resignedly as Cleveland, Miami or Omaha, waited for the first big bang...
...considered a target. Unwary old ladies were conked by water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which the water-gunmen used to refill their weapons...
...sunny terrace, in the gaudy bar and up & down the slippery stone corridors of the Hotel Quitandinha, delegates gossiped, shook hands, lobbied and told stories. The tanned and grey chief of the U.S. delegation was hardly seen in public. Yet, despite his efforts to push Latin leaders to the forefront, George Marshall dominated the Rio Inter-American Defense Conference...
...Nice pig,' said Moses Fable, who usually paid no attention to bit players and extras." The pig, Dirty Eddie, black, underprivileged, but unmistakably talented, is the hero of Ludwig Bemelmans' third whimsical novel. Moses Fable was the fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...