Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waldorf Astoria, monumental Manhattan hotel, celebrated for its dignity and its cuisine, there was seen last week the annual exhibition of pictures fostered by the Society of Independent Artists, who are notorious for their lack of dignity, their poor taste, and the total inexclusiveness of their membership. But the Independent Artists shows are noted also for their originality and the excitement they cause among untutored art patrons. The exhibition is often referred to as a "circus" or a "rodeo" by such stubbornly facetious reporters as are sent, instead of art critics, to report the affair for newspapers. To exhibit...
Some 1,800 fresh-faced women thronged the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Manhattan-delegates to the 13th annual National Convention of Girl Scout Leaders. Their president, Miss Sarah Louise Arnold, made a speech to the effect that there is "more to hope for from the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts than from any other standardized form of education...
...incident inspired Mr. Smith to further devilry. Affixing the signature, Pavel Jerdanowitsch, to the canvas, he changed the title from "Yes We Have No Bananas" to "Exaltation," sent the thing to the Exhibition of Independents at the Waldorf Astoria, Manhattan...
...hoped that the proposed 'change in Philippine control would not be taken as a criticism of General Wood, to whose administration the President paid high compliment. The General arrived in Manhattan last week, stopped at the Waldorf-Astoria, continued to announce that he would be back in Manila by September. He said that President Coolidge was "a great President," that the Filipinos were the "happiest people on earth" and that though most of them undoubtedly wanted independence, they really did not understand what independence would mean...
Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but beneath your rugged exterior I know there is a heart of the finest gold...