Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where Eisenhower will stay) has produced such cocktails as the Eisenhower Eye-Opener (whisky sour), the Taft Teaser (Manhattan) and the Dark Horse (old fashioned). The Palmer House, mindful of the footwork delegates will have to do, is putting a bottle of foot lotion into each room. A major tourist attraction last week was the new eight-room, $40,000 presidential suite at the Congress Hotel where hundreds of visitors, held back by museum-like ropes, gazed at the master parlor and bar, the mahogany beds, the solid-gold faucet handles in the bathroom. In this suite Bob Taft...
...They're So Mournful." After two tourist days, they bubbled with the usual discoveries. London was "so green, so clean, so old." They fumbled with the shillings and pence, but found British shopkeepers sympathetic. The girls "loved" the old churches, especially the crypts-"They're so mournful...
...better get in, General, or we'll both be back in the Army." After a look at Lake Mead, Ike asked how soon it would fill up with silt if no precautionary measures were taken. When the guide told him 350 years, a nearby tourist cracked: "Hey, Ike, do you think you'll be President by then?" Said Ike: "Brother, all I'm trying to do is get through...
...medals or her war service, she was turned down time & again . as a foreigner. She worked for a while as a $14-a-week salesgirl in Harrod's department store and as a cloakroom attendant in a Paddington hotel. Last year she got a job as a tourist-class stewardess on a ship running to Australia and New Zealand...
Luxury v. Defense. Because the United States was built as a troop carrier in war as much as a tourist carrier in peace, the Navy had final say on what went into the ship. Whenever the choice lay between luxury and defense, defense won. In the cabin-class lounge, for example, Designer Gibbs wanted windows. The Navy said no; they might weaken the ship...