Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diehard. In El Paso, a vagrant gave his name as Adolf Hitler, but was booked under the name he had used in signing a local motel register-Heinrich Himmler...
...Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
...little later the motel telephone rang; the consulate was on the line advising the Earl to get married. A little later, minus collar & tie, the Earl hurried Mildred and two hastily aroused witnesses into the home of Justice of the Peace Delbert Bresemann. The J.P. performed what he proudly described as a "candlelight office wedding...
...will earn about $75,000 this year. Some 70% of those earnings (after taxes) go into a trust fund, to be held there until Willie comes of age. Meanwhile, he is sending his 18-year-old brother to college, supporting his bride of four months in a Los Angeles motel, playing a few rounds of golf (low gos) in the mornings, and driving a new Buick. Records were all right, Willie figured, but nothing to lose sleep over...
College Spirit. In New Haven, Conn., the Homestead Motel proudly announced that it had "a limited supply of fine rooms available to Yalemen for their quests...