Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a "screwdriver...
...altered his plans for it again & again. The design for its eight narrow stained-glass windows of half-abstract leaves and cactuses done in blue, yellow and green was worked out by pinning colored scraps to long rolls of brown wrapping paper tacked to the walls of his hotel suite at Nice. The interior design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from the Matisse windows. "You understand?" he said to a TIME reporter at Nice last week, "the colors...
Dartmouth started making real noise with its visits in the twenties. It was then that the Indian fanatics centered their merry-making in hotel lobby riots. But by the late 'thirties this brand of deviltry disappeared in favor of the more inviting Yard raid...
...unprecedented move the Law School Class of 1924, at its 25th Reunion dinner last night in the Hotel Continental, presented the Law School with a gift of $30,000 "to be used at the Deans' discretion." Dean Erwin N. Griswold accepting the donation said that the gift "will establish an endowed scholarship providing full tuition for two students at one time...
Meanwhile, in the Louis XIV ballroom of the Hotel Somerset the Harvard Outing Club will put on a Harvard Square Dance. Members of the Outing Club will get the festivities under way with a demonstration of two square dance sets. After that they will mingle among the uninitiated to assist neophyte square dancers...