Word: motel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good view of the world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly the pair act like nice, believable high-school kids...
Virtuoso. In San Pedro, Calif., police hunted the fly fisherman who had made a cast into L. M. White's motel room and flicked out his wallet...
...prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor. On her silly trail throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship by her adroit management of an old-fashioned camisole...
Having recently received a large number of exhibits from the Lebanon Republic Pavilion at the New York World's fair, the Semitic Museum will soon display the principal archaeological finds, paintings, and motel work illustrative of Phoenician civilization...
...filling stations, are built by home labor. Of the "better variety" camp, the American Automobile Association recognizes only 9,600, approves of no more than 3,200 as "first-rate tourist stops." These Ritzes of the far-flung industry prefer the name motor court to tourist camp (auxiliary name: motel), cater only to bona fide tourists. Typical of them is Pines Camp Cottages and Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich...