Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, 2,000 men and women in evening dress sat down to an expensive banquet. Each had paid $205 for the privilege-$5 for the food, $200 because Anne Morgan had an idea. There was, of course, a speakers' table, lifted not so much by carpenters as by its occupants-a half-dozen ambassadors, a sprinkling of ministers and delegates from the world's various corners, and Anne Tracy Morgan who thought nothing of summoning them. Coffee finished, they arose in diplomatic order to speak. Sir Esme Howard told...
Strawberry Blonde is another play flung by Martin Brown to the Great White Way (others current: The Love Thief [nee Praying Curve], The Dark). Herein an epidemic of red-headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice...
...reply from Liberty Weekly, Inc., in Chicago was received by President Lowell. Under date of January 12, 1927, Mr. Hubbard, in Astoria replied to President Lowell's letter of December 13, as follows: Astoria...
They give their chambermaids severe instructions. Nevertheless, other Manhattan hotels were envious when, last week, mice were reported in the Waldorf-Astoria. For one thing, these mice were dead. For another, they were, as mice go, famed. They had arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that...