Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Advise and Consent, Otto Preminger tapped a film freshman whom the state of Arizona cast in the same role from 1912 to 1941: Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst, 87. No one, however, could fairly accuse Preminger of typecasting. "Five-Syllable Henry" Ashurst, now living in retirement in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, is admittedly the very model of an oldtime, wing-collared Senator. But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas-a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language...
...women and 37 of their husbands who gathered in the banquet room of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel did their best to ignore what they insisted was the reek of whisky seeping through the glass doors from the men's bar on one side and the smell of champagne from the elegant Garden Court on the other. Loud and often, they drowned out the sound of what they feared was drunken babbling by raising their voices in song...
...interested in your article about General Taylor but was surprised to read that he and President Kennedy had never met. I recall the General spoke at a Veterans of Foreign Wars banquet in Boston at the Sheraton Plaza in 1946, which Mr. Kennedy attended [see cut]. They were well acquainted at that time...
...Closing time is 1 a.m. every night except Saturday,. when midnight rings down the curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel, and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel...
...whole house on N Street for her hairdressers and other attendants; Kennedy, fleeing from this female world, decided to make his temporary headquarters at the nearby home of a friend, Artist William Walton, an erstwhile journalist. In the afternoon, he drove to a Governors' reception at the Sheraton-Park, paid his respects all around, picked up Harry Truman and drove back home again. By now the traffic was tied in knots, and Kennedy canceled out on two receptions...