Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with the doves, there was a great program for furbishing up the state buildings, the Russian embassy, the swank Bristol hotel; scaffolds lined the buildings on Unter den Linden...
...duly noted in the Gazette), but sedate family men also ate up the weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
Though the Waldorf is smaller (1,900 rooms) than the Stevens and short of the Plaza's leisurely charm, it is the greatest hotel in the world to Hilton, as to almost everyone else...
...bulging with money and utterly boorish. They discovered that the humble dollars in their wallets represented the solidest value in the world, the item which seemed to be the chief reason for Europe's respect for the U. S. They found themselves the target for postcard salesmen, black marketeers, hotel keepers, and souvenir hawkers all the way from Rotterdam to Barcelona...
Other local luminaries who will partake in the ceremonies are: Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Philly first baseman (out since May after being shot in a hotel room), Al Capp, author of "LIT Abner," actress Betty Field, and Mayor Michael J. Novilie...