Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Activities planned for this term include breakfast flights to Northhampton and other neighboring college towns, participation in air meets sponsored by the Association of New England Flying Clubs, and a jaunt by the whole groups to an aviators' resort...
...Hamburg-Amerika Line has been paying pensions to 2,000 of its old employees. To keep going, the line has resorted to all kinds of makeshifts-it tied the bombed passenger-freighter St. Louis to a dock, ran it as a restaurant-hotel. It has also been operating a mail-order agency, a resort hotel, an insurance company and a fleet of harbor tugs...
...Luscious. Last week a deep distress pervaded the elegant resort. There, rashly in the public eye, was the town's aristocratic Jonsine da Silva Ramos, a young, perpetually smiling Brazilian, lord of 3,460 acres of rich coffee plantation in his native land. He was locked up in nearby Bayonne's jail, called Villa Chagrin, on charge of murdering his lovely wife, the equally patrician Monique, née Champin...
...Dante's Inferno but has much in common with the Godless statism of George Orwell's 1084; 2) the real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...
...Year's Day a Swiss photographer was admitted to the Mont-Choisi Clinic to take pictures of a radiant Rita with Princess Yasmin on the pillow beside her, sound asleep. Ahead of Rita lay a sojourn in Aly's 15-room chalet at Gstaad, the winter sports resort, where she would rest and recuperate under the care of a special masseur and the fond eyes, of course, of Aly, his pressagent and anybody who could read a newspaper...