Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering in Chicago, but in the Knickerbocker Hotel, the directors of the Progressive Citizens of America pondered earnestly and long while the spirit of Henry Wallace hovered over them...
...Manhattan, Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 15-year-old brother of the Shah of Persia, disappeared from his hotel room shortly before he was to be taken off to summer school. Next day the Prince, who had already run away from one school in Beirut, another in Switzerland, alighted at Orly Airfield near Paris. Where next? The Persian Minister in Paris, who had promptly taken the Prince in hand, told the press: "It depends on his brother," and briskly pulled down the diplomatic curtain...
...made her debut in Vichy in Manon in 1937, came home to the U.S. when the war began. She sang in opera in the U.S. and Latin America, was in Mexico City recovering from an operation when she got her first break. She was practicing her scales in her hotel room when a Coca-Cola representative, attending a Rotary Club meeting in a room below, heard her and signed her for a two-year radio program...
Besides Harvardevens, whose 886 apartments have never been completely occupied, Hunneman and Company operates the Brunswick Hotel for the University as well as five other housing projects around Cambridge which accommodate 331 married couples. The Brunswick, located in Copley Square, is limited to couples without children...
...Grand Hotel. Her first novel, Give Us Our Dream, is her well-intentioned but singularly sterile effort to excavate the humanity that pulsates under the drabness of Sunnyside, a railroad-side section of New York City where she lived after her return from Japan. Her characters all live in the same boxlike apartment house, and their humdrum lives shortly become caught up in a naive pattern which is spun without imagination. In this Grand Hotel without grandness, coincidence and sentiment are bigger than life...