Word: hotelmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...
...bill, passed by the Assembly, to rip the state wide open again for gamblers able to pay license fees of $1,000 per table. The same assembly and senate were caught napping-or so they said-in the small hours before adjournment, by a slick lobby of lawyers and hotelmen, who got a committee to change "six months" to "three months" in that phrase of the Nevada divorce statute which prescribes how long divorce-hunters must reside in Nevada. Irate legislators who snored through the reading of the new bill, which both houses passed within ten minutes, swore they thought...
Host of Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
...Hotelmen know Mr. Statler, greyling, sexagenarian, for the most human of competitors. They know that they may come to him for advice on operating their inns. They send their sons to train in his hotels-the Hotels Statler of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. They count on easy entree to the Hotel Statler now abuilding on Park Square, Boston. He conceals his affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success...