Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pasting classical labels on contemporary commerce, the Shakespeare Hotel shoots the works: the management has named its bedrooms "Romeo and Juliet," "The Taming of the Shrew," its bathrooms "The Tempest," "King Lear," the bridal suite "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the dining room "As You Like It," and the bar "Measure for Measure." As the largest hotel in town, the Shakespeare entertains enough Americans to have become one of the few English hostelries where guests can get tomato juice for breakfast, and ice in their highballs...
...Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
...sickroom air hung this week over Chicago's Stevens Hotel as 1,500 radiomen gathered for the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Instead of milling happily in & out of hotel suites for three days with drinks in their hands, the delegates sat glumly and listened to disquieting speeches. An NAB veteran said he had never seen so sober a meeting...
Meanwhile, the novelist tells the stories of the Negroes whose lives are directly touched by this affair-the Rogers family, Ezekiel's secretary, Bessie Mathews, and her hard-working brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...
...Tarkington advice and has been living and writing by it ever since. In three months he traveled 3,000 miles, for the Satevepost, wrote four articles, went through 73 historical source books and wrote the first 60,000 words of his first novel "on trains, in railway stations, in hotel rooms, and occasionally worked all night." With a contract from Publisher Russell Doubleday in his pocket, he went to Italy to write, hung a schedule on the wall beside his bed: "Write a chapter every 4 days; write 1⅓⅓pages (1,500 words) every day for 120 days...