Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colorless, clinging type named Eve. This triangular time bomb is the dominant theme. The younglove interest is entrusted to a boy who seems to be losing his wits (his mother died in a mental institution) anoa pretty juvenile delinquent who is in danger of making a habit of motel weekends with married men. The murder victim is a gigolo-like blackmailer. Author Quentin is a skilled carpenter at knocking together a neat puzzle and in sending the reader haring off down a dozen false trails. But it is hard to be sympathetically involved with any of this yarn...
...Rouge to be committed to a sanitarium in Galveston for treatment of schizophrenia (TIME. June 15). It had been an eventful eight days since Long forced his release from an insane asylum, made a travesty of Louisiana's mental-health laws, and reinstated himself as Governor in a motel room near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Milestones in the hectic trail between the Pine Manor Motel and the Governor's mansion: ¶ With his bony feet sticking out of the sheet that covered his body, Ole Earl held a press conference from his motel bed, told reporters...
...together with Jordan's manager. Don Nesseth, pretended to agree. After the fight Leonard ignored Blinky Palermo's attempts to collect a share of the money. Soon he got a summons to Miami. He flew down, was brought into the presence of Frankie Carbo at a waterfront motel. Carbo "advised" he comply...
Vellucci criticized DeGuglielmo for his skepticism, and pointed to the Brattle Square motel, now under construction, as another fantasy which "has become a reality." But DeGuglielmo denied that he had ever branded that project as a fantasy, and went on to attack Long's "evasive responses" to questioning...
Ground was broken yesterday for a $500,000 motel to be built over the municipal parking lot in Brattle Sq. The three-story brick structure, with 57 rooms and two levels of parking space, is expected to be ready for occupancy in the spring...