Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horror, why it had not had a police escort. The answer: "We trusted in the Lord, as always." Fourteen tellers were set to work counting up the bills, needed 3½ hours to verify the total. But by evening the faithful had their check. By the next day the hotel had been purchased and one Brother Germain had announced new rules for guests: 1) no smoking, 2) no drinking, 3) no wives and husbands allowed in the same bedroom...
...where I came from I went where I wanted. The two Russians - there are always two Russians - scratched their heads like they did back at Helsinki. They questioned me for two hours but I gave them straight answers. They finally said, 'We'll take you to the hotel in Moscow. They can find out what it's all about...
...went to the Intourist hotel in a Packard. "We rode," he says, "along a magnificent highway. It had twelve lanes but no automobiles. Just bums along the road. At the hotel they asked how much money I had. I showed them my travelers' checks and they said they were no good. I said the American Express Co. would be very indignant about that because they prided themselves on their travelers' checks. I said I'd telephone collect and the American Express could put them straight, but they said no. They loaned me 100 rubles and offered...
Around 9:30 one night last week, an old gentleman in evening clothes opened the door of a Manhattan hotel ballroom and started to make his way inside. At once, the 1,500 banqueters rose from their tables, and the room rocked with applause. Educator-Philosopher John Dewey nodded his white head, smiled behind his scraggly mustache as scholars and eminent professors clapped until their hands ached. Then everyone joined in a chorus of "Happy birthday...
...arrival, he had to hide out in a mid-Manhattan hotel to try to get some rehearsing done. Even though Britten and Pears have sung and played virtually the same program all over Europe in the past few years, they had to make sure they had all of their music. Britten forgets it as soon as he writes it. He confesses with a crinkly smile: "I seem to have the kind of mind that gives everything out and keeps nothing in. Amazing as it seems, I can't play my own music without the score...