Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, the air-conditioned Century Theater invited the public to come in after the last show and spend the night cooling off in upholstered seats. The wine steward of Washington's Mayflower Hotel noted a 300% increase in the sale of mint juleps and Tom Collinses. The Bluefield, W.Va. Chamber of Commerce, which likes to brag about its town's cool summer weather, did its best to compensate for the 92° weather by serving free lemonade...
...drove for long hours. At 4 a.m. he walked wearily into the Albion Hotel at Asbury Park, and asked for a room. He registered as Fred Ellis...
...room, like any small hotel room, was hot. The man pulled the varnished hotel chair up to the table, pulled out a sheet of stationery, and wrote...
INTO MEXICO CITY'S swank Reforma Hotel checked Panama's chastened ex-President Arnulfo Arias Madrid. Dr. Arias, who had been briefly in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala since his drubbing at the hands of the electoral jury in Panama's presidential elections (TIME, Aug. 16), spoke some nice words about Mexico, then asked permission to settle there and practice medicine...
...reason which he carefully keeps to himself, Randolph Scott, the hero, stalks and finally gets George Macready, the heavy. During the unnecessarily long time the job takes, he becomes foreman for a ranch-owning widow (Sally Eilers), converses occasionally with a lady (Marguerite Chapman) who runs a hotel with photogenic interiors, and is chivalrous to the heavy's drunken wife (Barbara Reed). Although these ladies plainly suffer serious emotional upsets every time he comes near them, Randolph scarcely seems to notice. He is much too busy riding up, down and across the landscape, looking resolute...