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The hotel became a meeting place for war leaders: Winston Churchill often took his cabinet to lunch at the hotel, Lord Mountbatten, Charles de Gaulle, Jan Masaryk and General Wavell were among the regular Grill Room diners, and the hotel's air-raid shelters were " the smartest in London ".
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As we began to converse in the lounge of his Fifth Avenue hotel, his restlessness and sensitivity to light and sound became immediately apparent.
Chaplin became fearful that Harris would claim The Kid as part of the divorce proceedings, so packed the 400, 000 feet negative into crates and travelled to Salt Lake City to cut the film in a hotel room.
The hotel became the Harwich Town Hall, which included the Magistrates Court, and following changes in local government was sold and divided into apartments.
Karaoke machines were initially placed in restaurants and hotel rooms ; soon, new businesses called karaoke boxes, with compartmented rooms, became popular.
The President's House in Philadelphia became a hotel and was demolished in 1832 while the unused presidential palace became home to the University of Pennsylvania.
Those open houses sometimes became rowdy: in 1829, President Andrew Jackson had to leave for a hotel when roughly 20, 000 citizens celebrated his inauguration inside the White House.
After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg, he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha.
In the 1890s, under its famous manager, César Ritz, and chef Auguste Escoffier, it became a well-known luxury hotel and would generate more income and contribute more to the D ' Oyly Carte fortunes than any other enterprise, including the opera companies.
Morecambe headed back to his hotel, and recounted in an interview with Michael Parkinson in November 1972 that, as the pains spread to his chest, he became unable to drive.
Under President James Buchanan, the hotel became the summer White House.
In 1840, White County became a destination for people from all over the country when Christopher Haufmann erected a large hotel on Bon Air Mountain, part of the Cumberland Plateau.
Hilton Hotels became the first coast-to-coast hotel chain of the United States in 1943., there are now over 530 Hilton branded hotels across the world in 78 countries across six continents.
Named for the Gadsden Purchase, the stately five-story, 160-room hotel became a home away from home for cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen.
In the years leading up to the turn of the 20th century, the town also claimed a hotel, a drug store and a flour and grist mill, in addition to a sawmill that became a necessity after the community saw an increase in lumber production.
The Brown family subsequently became heavily involved in the commercial life of the community, operating a general store, hotel, an asparagus packing house, and the well-known Bank of Alex Brown.
The hotel later became known as the Mountain View Hotel.
According to Ernest Robinson, County Historian, Seffner quickly became a prosperous little place with prosperous people, groves, a hotel ( later destroyed by fire ), one drug store, several dry goods stores and a livery stable.
The hotel became a center of activity in the area.
In the next decade the landmark hotel built by Owen Burns, the El Vernona, which had been turned into apartments became endangered.
The hotel later became a boarding house and burned in the 1970s.
The line of lots paralleling the tracks and southeast of the railroad became the location of the hotel and the town jail.
When the road was being built and huge numbers of workers were brought in to do the work McCredie became a boom town, with future Kingdom City receiving its first gas station and a two-story hotel.
Mohawk became known as Bennetts Corners after a hotel stand that was located here in 1826.
Luther S. Holden, John's son, operated the old hotel that his father had built, started development of the property nearby and became a permanent resident in 1946.
hotel and meeting
A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.
The meeting was unsuccessful due to a Garda raid on the hotel.
* May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
The con artist may claim to be interested in meeting the victim, but needs cash to book a plane, hotel room, or other expenses.
One such meeting in a hotel in Kedichem was disrupted by left-wing activists, who set fire to the building.
Amid the small-talk, the couple discuss fears that they are being watched, and mention a discreet meeting at a hotel room in a few days.
The meeting for the deal is scheduled to take place at a downtown welfare hotel.
The city's original central business district was located on Second Street, and by 1866 it included two general stores, a library, hotel, shoe store, restaurant, meeting hall and saloon.
Today there are nine hotel / casinos and one motel in Laughlin providing over 10, 000 rooms, of meeting space, 60 restaurants, two museums, a 34-lane bowling center and a variety of boutiques, spas and salons.
Addison has 22 hotels, featuring a total of at least 4, 000 hotel rooms and meeting facilities.
In the summer of 1881, McKay erected the first store and the railroad built a depot nearby, which also served as a hotel, theater and meeting hall.
On December 20, during the conference, Luciano had a private meeting with Genovese in Luciano's hotel suite.
He presented the soaking cover to a group of high-ranking Royal Navy officers meeting at a nearby Inveraray hotel.
Claude Vorilhon held a meeting in a Montreal hotel on 21 September 2000, where he announced that a wealthy American couple was willing to fund the Clonaid project.
The meeting at the Bal Harbour Sheraton has been the object of frequent criticism, including over a labor dispute at the hotel itself.
This was distributed widely, and the first Nominet meeting was held at a hotel at Heathrow Airport on 11 April 1996.
This law requires that any hotel, meeting hall, or similar institution that receives federal funds ( i. e. for a government traveller's overnight stay, or a conference, etc.
Note: May have been at the 14th American Rocket Society meeting at a Wash, DC hotel on 1 Nov 59
Billiton was a mining company whose origins stretch back to 29 September 1860, when the articles of association were approved by a meeting of shareholders in the Groot Keizerhof hotel in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The hotel contains seven luxury rooms, a meeting room, a library, a lobby and a restaurant, surrounding a central courtyard which has a garden.
Commercially, the term is used by meeting planners and other meeting professionals to denote an event booked at a hotel, convention center or any other venue dedicated to such gatherings.
At the conclusion of a 1993 tour of Australia, Japan, and Europe, the group held a meeting in a hotel room in Copenhagen during which Malkmus, Kannberg and Ibold remained silent while Nastanovich ( Young's best friend at the time ) argued with the drummer and informed him that his antics were unnecessary.
The Wanderers ' representative at the meeting, Jimmy Gardner met Ambrose O ' Brien in the ground floor of the hotel where the league was meeting.
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