Word: transients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auguries of such a renaissance are on all sides, he is sure. "It is not just a transient phenomenon. I predict that within 25 years the vast majority of the five million Jews in this country will have returned to their faith and will be keeping the Sabbath...
...original budget for Cowie Hall this year showed an expected deficit of $22,000, and consequently the University decided to raise transient rates. Female guests of Business School students, however, will pay the old rates of $.65 for breakfast, $.80 for lunch, and a flat $1.05 fo all dinners...
...fearing that the rival classes might suffer worse damages than had already befallen their graven image (now minus an arm and a foot due to wear & tear), Amherst officials persuaded her transient keepers to give her up, retired her to the college museum behind three locked doors. There she gathered dust for seven tranquil years, until she was mysteriously beheaded by ill-wishers, promptly reheaded by the late President Stanley King, who tracked down her tortured top. After that, Sabrina was bolted to the floor...
Characters wander in & out of The Enclosure as if it were a transient hotel. Its reigning matriarch, Mrs. Halstead, dies, and with her goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing...
Hall pointed out that schemes to avoid the tax by keeping dinner at 95 cents and increasing lunch five cents more instead, would not work since the transient lunch trade would be reduced. The University, he added, must charge more for supper to break even on that meal...