Word: sunroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Canada spent more than nickels in a hands-across-the-border "thank you." Through nine whoppingly successful victory loans, 50 Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders...
When his private car reached Washington, just after noon on Friday, Mr. King went straight to the White House. He stayed up late that night, talking with Franklin Roosevelt in a top-floor sunroom. Next morning he had the run of the White House. He said later that he was treated just like a member of the family. He dined again Saturday night with the President. They sat up late again, talking. Finally, Mr. King climbed into a limousine, was driven to his train...