Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoop. In Topeka, Kans., the State Journal headlined a story on the city's new hook-&-ladder truck, NOW BRING ON YOUR TEN-FLOOR FIRE, two minutes after publication sent reporters to a fire in the ten-floor Hotel Kansan...
...duty-Russian style. He had brought Mrs. Kasenkina back from Countess Tolstoy's New York farm and held her incommunicado at the consulate. After she had jumped, Jake concocted one story. Then last week he tried another story. Mrs. Kasenkina had seen "a crowd running from the Hotel Pierre towards the consulate," he said, and it had frightened her. He said she was depressed by the "malicious fabrications" of the U.S. press and overwrought by "threats of the United States police" to haul her into court "by force." Mrs. Kasenkina had already said from her hospital bed that...
...over the testimony that night, Nixon decided that Crosley and Whittaker Chambers must be the same man. Next morning a subcommittee decided on an immediate face-to-face meeting between Chambers and Alger Hiss. They hurriedly telephoned both to meet the subcommittee that afternoon in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel...
...Russian consulate. Soon the men on the Babe Ruth watch, at Memorial Hospital a mile away, could go home, leaving the watch to the morning papers. Next door to the Soviet consulate, half a dozen photographers idled. Across the street three reporters lolled in the lobby of the Hotel Pierre...
...Keeffe spends half of each year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...