Word: mohonk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick case and find there's no bar and no smoking in the dining room or parlor, for crying out loud, when a writer name of Donald E. Westlake gets us all together to give us the story line. For openers, we ain't in the Mohonk Mountain House no more; we're in something called the Hotel Kuckkuckuhr, in Switzerland, and it's 1938. Then Westlake shows us this black-and-white flick that's more black than white, which is to say I'm talking poor quality, of some dumpity guy, a real lard bucket, being bothered...
...place she drags me to turns out not to be no dump but more like a castle. Couple of Quaker brothers name of Smiley started it in 1869. Goes by the moniker of Mohonk Mountain House. It's 80 or 90 miles north of the city (I say the city because we all say the city, but if it's not your city I should say New York City). The place and the grounds are a real knockout, and the folks are nuts about plants, which grow in the ground, instead of in pots, where everybody knows God intended them...
...four-day Chocolate Binge Weekend, attended by 150 chocophiles last February at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y. ($183), featured chocolate treats ad nauseam, as well as counsel by Philadelphia Psychiatrist Roy Fitzgerald and his wife, Anthropologist Jennie Keith (sample subject: Does one eat chocolate before or after...