Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted, Potter Palmer built a new hotel (the first fireproof one in the U.S.), worked under calcium lights at night to have it open before the rival Grand Pacific Hotel. When Palmer lost, he grimly built a board-and-shingled shack in the lobby of his $2,500,000 hotel, labeled it: "This is what the Grand Pacific is made of." In time, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright ridiculed the gingerbready Palmer House as "an ugly old man whose wrinkles were all in the wrong place...
...failed to find a map, but he unearthed a 17th-Century Italian book beneath the floor of a deserted shack. Just to have it appraised, he took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
Actors, technicians and equipment were toted hither & yon to get such actual backgrounds as the California Institute of Technology and the radio shack used by the Bureau to relay bogus information abroad. By shooting only 35 feet of film (less than half a minute) in the studio, able Director Henry Hathaway set some sort of record...
...between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which his money might...
...Hote, a pretty, brown-eyed Conservatory student who was the daughter of a Marseilles fonctionnaire. Three days after the wedding Robert joined the staff of the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, and he and Gaby spent three terms with the carefree American students at Louis XV's summer shack...