Jul 4, 2014 21:51
9 yrs ago
English term
hotel tape
English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
"Then this rising man of affairs showed Kipps how to buy the more theatrical weeklies for consumption in the train, how to buy and what to buy in the way of cigarettes with gold tips and shilling cigars, and how to order hock for lunch and sparkling Moselle for dinner, how to calculate the fare of a hansom cab—penny a minute while he goes—how to look intelligently at an hotel tape, and how to sit still in a train like a thoughtful man instead of talking like a fool and giving yourself away."
I remember seeing two short metal bar and a red strip between the bars at the entrance of a hotel. I don't know the english (or turkish) name for it and I couldn't find a photo of it. I am not sure but it is the only thing which comes to my mind, could "hotel tape" mean something like that?
I remember seeing two short metal bar and a red strip between the bars at the entrance of a hotel. I don't know the english (or turkish) name for it and I couldn't find a photo of it. I am not sure but it is the only thing which comes to my mind, could "hotel tape" mean something like that?
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ticker tape
I'm not sure that the dates quite match. The link below suggests 1930 or so would be OK, which is well within Well's lifetime. But the 1905 first edition seems too early - what is the revision history of Kipps?
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Note added at 50 mins (2014-07-04 22:42:22 GMT)
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Maybe it works "From April to July of 1906, he had been the clerk at the front desk who gave directions, schmoozed with customers, read the ticker tape results to the uninitiated and gossiped with clients."
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Note added at 50 mins (2014-07-04 22:42:22 GMT)
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Maybe it works "From April to July of 1906, he had been the clerk at the front desk who gave directions, schmoozed with customers, read the ticker tape results to the uninitiated and gossiped with clients."
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