Word: stevension
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring...
A Note of Praise. After serving overseas in the Army Transportation Corps in World War II, Captain Glynn applied for a job with the Government's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. To make sure he got it, he added a few nonexistent qualifications: two years at Brown, a degree...
The actual Fisher also looked at times like a morose Harold Lloyd, but he is played in the movie by an actor with a rubbery accent, bouncing jowls and a giggle. Most of the real Fisher has been filtered by Hollywood into the Stevens' character: his pugnacious salesmanship and...
Some hotelmen, who have enviously watched Hilton's amazing growth, darkly say that he has grown too fast. But Hilton points to his books in answer. Still remembering his collapse in the depression, Hilton has cut the total debt on his hotels from $32,806,000 in 1946 to...
But midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader...