Word: welled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father Hilton was wiped out by the panic of 1907, he started taking roomers into the family's modest adobe dwelling at $1 a day, and Connie helped him. But it wasn't what young Hilton wanted. He went into politics and, with the help of a well-organized graveyard vote ("the best people in the county"), was elected, at 24, to New Mexico's first state legislature...
...biggest creditor, took over his hotels. But Hilton still kept a foot in the door; American National gave him an $18,000-a-year job running their hotels. Gradually he raised enough cash to get back five of his nine hotels. By 1939 things were going so well that he built the Albuquerque Hilton and was on the move again...
...movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...
...hottest bestseller of 1949 runs to less than 1,000 words and sells for an even dollar. White Collar Zoo is a collection of 73 brightly captioned pictures illustrating a well-known truth: that the posturings and expressions of any group of human beings and those of an animal farm are obviously and sometimes hilariously interchangeable. White Collar's success can be traced to the shock of recognition...
...Collar, Home Sweet Zoo has an even larger potential audience: the husbands and wives of the nation who have been stuck by the thorns of domestic irritation. Confident Author Barnes, who blandly assumes that White Collar will go over 500,000, thinks that Home ought to do just as well. Hopeful, but aware that the hottest fads have a saturation point, Publishers Doubleday have ordered a mere...