Word: hotels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Four Seasons Hotel...
...last two weeks, Harvard Law School (HLS) students have filled hotel lobbies, fidgeting nervously just before 20-minute interviews with the nation's top law firms. At least seven months before the end of spring term is in sight, the summer job search has already begun...
...Scoop: Boston marathon runners would gather at the Eliot Lounge after the race, where their wacky antics went unquestioned. The bar closed two years ago. According to Eliot concierge Michael Kauer, the hotel was robbed many years ago. The robbers entered into the hotel and held up the manager on duty. After forcing him to hand over the contents of the hotel's vault, they proceeded to infiltrate various guests' rooms. Later that evening, when a 70-year-old female resident returned to the lobby, she was shocked to find the hotel manager-naked, bound and gagged. At first...
...Eliot Hotel...
Stories: One of the landmark features of the hotel is The Oval Room. The Oval Room ceiling showcases a trompe l'oeil sky and cloud mural. According to hotel legend, John Singer Sargeant would lunch at the Oval Room while painting the Boston Public Library murals. Inspired by the grandeur that the room emanated, he joined the painters of the dining room's ceiling mural and added an angel. Unfortunately, 30 years later the hotel painted over the angel while remodeling. It is also rumored that Olympic gold medalist Sonia Henning, when visiting Boston, would often have the Oval Room...