Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with commuter-like regularity, he walked into the big, opulent, mirrored barbershop of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a shave, a manicure, and, if need be, a trim. Afterwards he seated himself on a leather chair near the doors and received those who wished to chat, make quick touches, or offer him investment opportunities...
...pictcha," a lonely figure who sought out movies he hadn't seen before, on Broadway or in the suburbs, without caring whether it was a cowboy film, a thriller, a musical, or good or bad. At dusk, he went to the dimly lighted cocktail lounge of the Madison Hotel, had a maximum of three Scotch & sodas, and made himself "available" again to anybody wanting to talk business...
...plush Hong Kong Hotel, British ladies & gentlemen in dinner jackets and evening gowns dance nightly to the strains of Strauss and U.S. jazz. But, said a colonial Colonel Blimp: "Before the war it was different. Now your No. 1 boy might be sitting next to you in the reserved section of one of Hong Kong's best theaters...
...staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal was his ceRemónial bodyguard...
...Dwyer last week whisked Sloan Simpson into a green and white police plane and flew off into the wild blue yonder. The press was caught flatfooted. Two hours later the City Hall gave out a statement: "The mayor and Miss Sloan Simpson are at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Sweeney." Guessing at an elopement, a swarm of newsmen and photographers lit out for Saratoga, there cornered the flustered mayor. Was it wedding bells that the reporters heard? Snapped O'Dwyer:,"No comment...