Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week to satisfy the demands of protocol at the A.F.L. convention. He arrived in Cincinnati for the big doings as punctiliously as a good Moslem entering Mecca. He donned a proper hand-painted necktie, submitted cheerfully to interviews, and loitered diplomatically in the lobby of the Netherland Plaza Hotel, glad-handing rheumy and belligerent old union patriarchs...
Socialist Britain had its topsy-turvy aspect as well, and from there last week came a story of a London visitor who was inordinately impressed with the satiny polish given his shoes by a hotel boot boy. Next morning he arose especially early to catch the "boots" and congratulate him. "How did you ever learn to do it?" he asked. The boots drew himself to attention. "As a matter of fact," he replied in the clipped accents of an ex-Guards officer, "my batman taught...
Once a year, the Managing Editors' Association of the Associated Press-a sort of club within a club-has a soul-searching session. Last week, in Chicago's Drake Hotel, it was in full and mournful cry. With the election fresh in mind, the managing editors of A.P. papers found plenty to search their souls about...
Young Jezebel. She likes to run around her Manhattan hotel suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked...
Three members of the Government Department will participate this week in the National Municipal League's conference on government at the Hotel Statler. Professors Morris Lambie, Charles H. Cherington, and Carl Friedrich are slated to appear in the three-day meeting...