Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combine of Genoese financiers forked over 100 million lire down-payment for a nine-year gambling concession, agreed to build a casino and put up a 100-room hotel...
Hunt's greatest triumph involved the repurchase from the Navy of the Lido Beach Hotel at Long Beach, N.Y. The Navy had paid $1,300,000 for the place. The former owners wanted it back, and agreed to pay Hunt a $50,000 fee plus a big percentage of any amount under $800,000 he was able to get it for. He got it for $635,000, and made $86,000 by a process which, though legal, could hardly have been applauded by U.S. taxpayers...
...week's end, after only two speeches (Paris, Ky. and Altoona, Pa.), Barkley took off in a converted B-17 accompanied by his favorite Mayflower Hotel musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
Question of Honor. Perón accepted the resignation, but the question of Remorino's honor had still to be settled. Remorino challenged Bramuglia to a duel. When their seconds met in Buenos Aires' Hotel Continental, Bramuglia had an explanation : the ex-Foreign Minister had no recollection of having called Remorino a bad name. Since this amounted to a retraction, the duel was called...
...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...