Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hatless in the mild Washington night, the chunky man stood in the shadows outside the Dupont Plaza Hotel and reached fast for the onionskin paper held out by his taller, slimmer companion. The little man tucked the paper in his inside coat pocket, shook hands and turned back to the hotel. Smiling to himself, he padded across the thick rug in the lobby and started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents...
...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, veteran Cinemactress-TV Comedienne Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern, 47, perplexed by billows of smoke that rolled from the fireless fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people...
...varsity will also meet Yale on Saturday. Their remaining matches are the Intercollegiates at the New York concourse Plaza Hotel, and the N.C.A.A. Championships at Detroit, Michigan...
...bone-wet chill of winter lifted, and pale sunlight laid shadows of the leafless chestnut trees in fine tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite...
...children, Ivar Kreuger enjoyed a comfortable, humdrum boyhood in the forest-encircled town of Kalmar, Sweden. After cheating his way through school, and with an engineer's diploma in his pocket, Ivar began ricocheting around the globe. He did wiring jobs on Manhattan's Plaza and St. Regis Hotels, operated a restaurant -in Johannesburg. Back in Stockholm in 1908, he co-founded the building firm of Kreuger & Toll. Then he took over his family's three match factories, was shortly gobbling up competitors and building his giant Swedish match combine...