Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even tiny Redwater, with a population increase from 150 to 1,500 in ten months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...
...guest columnist in the Houston Press, Oilman-Hotelman Glenn McCarthy raked up some 25 McCarthy rumors and denied them all. Insisted McCarthy: there is no feud between him and fellow Texan Jesse Jones; there is no such thing as a minimum tip at his Shamrock hotel; he is not trying to buy a newspaper, a movie studio, Catalina Island or the St. Louis Browns...
...ranged from spotty to feeble. Last year's cheers had turned to jeers. There were persistent reports of feuds on the club, and tempers were frayed. One story was that Center Fielder Jim Russell and First Baseman Earl Torgeson had socked a couple of critics in a hotel-room brawl; in any case, Russell turned up on the bench with a pair of shiners and Torgeson with an injured thumb...
...slogan on the American Medical Association's blown-up posters of Fildes' famed doctor-and-child painting, spotted around the lobby of Detroit's Gotham Hotel last week, read: "Keep Politics Out of This Picture." But politics was in the picture and all over the place, and doctors were playing it. The Negro doctors who crowded the hotel were delegates to the annual convention of their own National Medical Association; the A.M.A. "observers" and their displays were there to persuade the N.M.A. to hitch itself as a tail to the A.M.A. kite. They failed...
...pick a fist fight with a Nazi, Jimmy is left alone to conduct-or be conducted in-his first love affair. Later that night, as he stands trembling in his mistress' closet listening to the husband's unexpected return, then as he flees naked down the hotel corridor, clutching his evening shoes and dinner coat, he remembers Casanova and realizes in a flash that this is what his tutors were talking about -the continuity of Western culture...