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Word: motel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home to mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...unit motel will be built on the Brattle Sq. parking lot, adjacent to the MTA yards. John Briston Sullivan and William J. Chase, founders of The New England Motel, Inc., paid the City of Cambridge $30,736 for the 17,500 square foot tract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan to Build 'Motel on Stilts' Over Brattle Lot | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Furthermore, the motel will have parking space for 30 cars on its mezzanine floor, with access by a ramp. John J. Curry '19, City Manager, explained that this move was made "in the interest of good public relations and good will." Loss of public parking was the primary objection to the motel when it was proposed last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan to Build 'Motel on Stilts' Over Brattle Lot | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...made her his ward. Poteet plays polo and coaches basketball, is always chaperoned when she travels with Steve. Square-jawed Steve gives his ward only the most brotherly kisses, has even punished her with a sound paddling. In contrast, Lolita confines her athletics to the bedroom, romps from motel to motel across the nation with her stepfather Humbert Humbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sisters Under the Skin? | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...travels alone across Siberia, settles finally in a remote valley in North China, sets up a sort of motel for mule drivers ("the newspapers of North China") and has somebody tell them Bible stories while they eat. Meanwhile, she makes friends with the local mandarin (Donat), who gives her a civil service job as his Foot Inspector during the height of the campaign against binding the feet of female children; after that, the cheerful, hardworking, God-fearing young woman is known for miles around as "Jen-Ai" (The One Who Loves People). She fights for the rights of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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