Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official...
...Republican Convention all over again-the same faces, the same factions-only this time the forces of Thomas E. Dewey, so cockily in control at Philadelphia, were in retreat. One hundred and two Republican national committeemen had gathered in Washington's Shoreham Hotel to choose a new party chairman...
After nine years on the Supreme Court at an annual salary of $25,000, Justice Frank Murphy left an estate in Washington of $2,100-of which $1,600 was due his hotel...
...Prague, another correspondent for a free press got a revealing look at the ways of dictatorship. Stepping out of the door of his room at the Hotel Flora, scholarly Hans Tütsch of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of Switzerland's biggest newspapers, saw a middle-aged woman carrying a big radio set. As he watched, she moved into room 130, next door. Tütsch later pointed out the woman to well-informed Czech friends, learned that she and her husband were both notorious police spies...
Accusing Voices. Paris hadn't been easy. Sekoto couldn't afford a studio, painted instead in his small, airless hotel room, laying his canvases on the floor where a small square of light fell. Three weeks ago he began hearing accusing voices repeating "You're no good, Gerard. Your painting is no good." To escape the voices, he tried to drink poison, hang himself. Friends rescued him, sent him off to the asylum of Ste. Anne...