Word: pera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, shy, former British Minister to Bulgaria, is a long-suffering gentleman. When Minister Rendel left Bulgaria last year after the Nazis' arrival, someone planted a bomb in his luggage. No sooner had Minister Rendel and his diplomatic party arrived in the ornate lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel than the bomb went off, killing one of the Minister's girl secretaries and four Turks, turning the lobby into a geyser of shattered trunks, curios and potted palms (TIME, March 24, 1941). Oddly enough, the Pera Palace sued Minister Rendel and party for damages. Last week...
...time just able to make out what appeared to be three enemy cruisers, but they faded out again as it grew darker. Then a Brock's benefit [Brock is the biggest British fireworks maker] broke out ahead as the torpedo bombers' attack develbul's Hotel Pera Palace, you say it was full of "Victorian rocking chairs." Your picture shows no rocking chairs. Is it not correct that rocking chairs are an American institution only...
...Most of the Hotel Pera Palace's rocking chairs are upstairs in the rooms. One TIME editor on a visit to Istanbul counted no less than 14 rockers in the sitting room of his two-room suite. Though they cannot show documentary proof, furniture historians confidently believe that rockers originated in North America, since they were common there in the 18th Century but unknown in Europe before the 19th...
...slight, dry and extremely shy British Minister was not killed, because at the moment of the explosion he was upstairs, probably worrying about something. An English friend has said of him: "Nobody could really be so worried about his work as George always looks." When he entered the Pera Palace with an entourage of some 50 persons, whom he had brought from Sofia because Britain broke off relations with Bulgaria after the Nazi influx (TIME, March 10), it was typical of George William Rendel that he went straight upstairs to his room and began to check over personally his Legation...
...also lost an arm, but death did not come to her for more than 30 hours. Instantly killed were four Turks, two of them hotel porters. The toll of wounded was 30. British First Secretary James Lambert was badly burned, slightly cut. When Minister Rendel came bounding down the Pera Palace stairs to see what all the noise and smoke was about he found his private secretary, Miss Gertrude Ellis, bleeding from serious wounds. His daughter and Legation Hostess, Ann Rendel, 21, had been knocked down by the force of the concussion, lay dazed but uninjured on the floor...