Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle 1880s, Commodore Vanderbilt was staying at a hotel in Paris, having his portrait painted by Meissonier. In the course of one of the sittings, he asked the painter which of his paintings was his favorite. Meissonier answered: "Le Renseignement. But it is in the hands of the enemies of France; it is in Berlin...
Vanderbilt had the picture purchased and sent to his hotel. When Meissonier came for the next sitting, Vanderbilt . . . said: "I am going to give you that picture."' You may imagine Meissonier's delight, and he did not charge Vanderbilt for the portrait...
...Egyptian and Israeli delegates sat down last week to discuss armistice, in the ballroom of the Hotel des Roses, U.N. headquarters in Rhodes, they were faced with a gigantic mural of the original sin: a naked Adam & Eve, the serpent and the apple. A few minutes later, the U.N. mediator, Bible-minded Ralph Bunche, tossed them another allegory. Urging both sides to avoid recriminations and "picayunish" quarrels, he said: "There are many eyes here, and motes can be readily found in them." He also warned "governments not involved" in the negotiations not to meddle. "Just a friendly...
...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
Since she gave away her houses in Chicago and Pittsfield to allow more money for music, Mrs. Coolidge has been living in a two-room apartment at the Hotel Continental. She continues to plan for the future, looking forward to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Foundation next year. For, the past she says, "I've had my share of thanks." And they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order...