Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prettily illustrated posters, alluring circulars and the honeyed words of professional conference promoters have done much to represent Silver Bay as a glorified summer resort rather than a meeting ground for those who wish to discuss the present-day problems of Christianity...
...Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...management of the paper in particular was a very difficult proposition. We did all the secretarial and office work ourselves, besides getting the advertisements, which was the worst part of all. About all the advertisements that we got' were from tailors and haberdashers, and then we often had to resort to coercion. Our favorite and most effective method was to run up large bills in the tailoring shops and then refuse to pay unless we were given an advertisement...
Twenty miles from the Ohio shore, in Lake Erie, is Pelee Island, Ontario. It is having a real-estate boom. One J. A. Baxter and the Manhattan financial firm of Mills Mover & Co. announced plans for "the greatest pleasure resort within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will...
Manhattan was neither surprised nor puzzled by a socio-aesthetic project of which it was advised last week. The Messrs. Nast and Crowninshield were announced as head promoters of a new type of nocturnal resort, frankly modeled after the Embassy Club of London and intended to cultivate that delectable type of night life so familiar to readers of Author Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius...