Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illness to the leading lady, Betty Field, forced postponement last night of the first performance of "Twelfth Night," a Brattle Theater Company production. Miss Field was confined to her hotel room for 24 hours with a sinus attack...
...mountain hotel atop Petersberg near Bonn, not far from the cave where Siegfried bathed in dragon's blood, the proconsuls of the three Western powers met to turn a historic leaf: they ended West Germany's military government. Henceforth, the land which Allied armies conquered would be under civilian rule...
...hotel's glassed-in veranda overlooking the sparkling blue Rhine below, the Germans and the Allied commissioners toasted, in German champagne, the end of one era and the start of another...
...remained to be done before official U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese "indigenous population" reflected democratic ideals. G.I.s are still not allowed to entertain Japanese friends in U.S. billets. Osaka's big new hotel, which houses U.S. officers and civilians, has a special side entrance for Japanese. Washrooms in Tokyo office buildings taken over by the Occupation forces are still marked: Officers, Enlisted Men, Japanese...
Obsessively shy, Heineman has always wrapped his affairs in such obscurity that few but the world's top bankers have ever heard of him. When in Manhattan, he lives in a nine-room apartment in a quietly elegant midtown hotel. Born in North Carolina, Heineman went to Europe at 16 and stayed there almost half a century building electric tramways and power plants (including Ebro) in a dozen countries, with U.S., British, Belgian, Swiss and French capital...