Word: hotels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alcohol refineries. The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. In this infernal din set up by screaming sirens, barking anti-aircraft guns and the roar of bursting bombs I can't take my mind off the shivering of the wall of this ancient hotel. If it holds together until I can get this off, then I will believe in miracles...
That might have been written by Ernest Hemingway in 1936, sitting in the Hotel Florida in Madrid while Franco's planes droned above the city. Or it could have been written by Floyd Gibbons in Shanghai the day the Palace Hotel had its front blown off, in 1937. Actually neither- Hemingway nor Gibbons wrote it, nor any of the war correspondents whose names were sometimes bigger than the news in Ethiopia, Spain and China, but a 28-year-old reporter named Daniel De Luce, who went to Europe for the first time last April...
...caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on the Western Front when Polish fighting bogged down in mud that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen a war before kept cables quivering with stories of a nation's despair and death...
Communist students in the University will join the entire Massachusetts branch of the Party in a mass meeting this evening in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Bradford in Boston...
...memorial meeting in honor of Joseph Lee '83, one of the early benefactors of the School of Education will be a principal feature of the twenty-fourth National Recreation Congress starting October 9 at the Statler Hotel...