Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons unknown to me, the management of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, our first stop, put us up in the bridal suite ($25 a day U.S.), and the airport customs inspector gave me a quick frisk-for guns or opium, no doubt. At Rangoon, where we landed in monsoon weather, I was met at the airport by a little brown man wearing a red skirt and sandals who politely informed me that the Government guest house awaited us. That was news to me-until I found out that he was looking for a United Nations man named Green...
...large the food was good all along our route, the hotels had plenty of clean towels and hot water (we supplied our own soap), and occasional nursemaids were available for the children, who can stand just so much sightseeing and no more. Our only fiscal misadventure occurred in Paris, where I had to pay the hotel bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted...
Amidst the confused maneuvers of the Berlin impasse, some 40 members of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Assembly found time one evening last week to give a small party. Held in a suite in Paris' Hotel Crillon, it was in celebration of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's 64th birthday. Mrs. Roosevelt was late...
...Thirteen magicians seated themselves in a dimly lighted hotel room in Springfield, Mass., held hands, made one last attempt to communicate with the spirit of the late Harry Houdini. When the lights were turned on they knew they had failed again. Two sets of locked handcuffs (which Houdini had promised to unlock if he could get back from the "world beyond") were undisturbed...
...Mackenzie King's long string was to be broken anyhow. Last week, the conference opened at 10 Downing Street without him. He was bedded in his Dorchester Hotel room, ordered to stay there by Lord Moran, Winston Churchill's doctor...