Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cathedral, Manhattan, formally opened the 42nd Annual Convention of the Knights of Columbus. Bishop William Turner of Buffalo keynoted with a sermon on that popular subject, Atnericanism?aiming veiled thrusts at the K. K. K. The 356 delegates arose from their knees, paraded down Fifth Ave. to the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Astoria, L. I., an Italian was called to court by health officers for harboring his goat, Jack, in his cellar. Ordered to seek other pasturage, said the Italian: "Me no keepa da goat; me eata da goat...
...Leviathan (United States)? Maitre d'Hotel Oscar of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (Manhattan), highest paid hotel executive in the world ($50,000 per annum), inventor of Oscar Sauce; with his wife for a three-months' tour in Europe?his first vacation after 41 years of uninterrupted work in the U. S.; David Warfield; William J. Burns; 52 Boy Scouts; "Pussyfoot" Johnson to convince the Moslems, the Indians and the Ceylonese that drinking Scotch whiskey is wrong...
...stormy three-hours discussion at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, James W. Gerard, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, attacked the Treaty, contending that "Christian civilization was crucified at Lausanne and the Stars and Stripes were trailed in the mire in the interest of a group of oil speculators." He characterized the Turks as murderers and the Kemalist Government as a group of adventurers whose régime was on its last legs. His position received needed dignity from the support of Professor A. D. F. Hamlin of Columbia University and Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, who wrote...
Charles Nestle, originator of the famed Nestle wave, addressed the American Master Hairdressers' Association at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. Said he: "A few more years of the bobbed hair craze and the shingled belles and women will be as bald as men. The reason men become bald is because their hair is cut so often and so short. Each hair is supported by a muscle; as the hair grows heavier, the muscle grows proportionately stronger. But when the hair is cut, the muscle is deprived of its normal exercise, loses its function, the hair falls out. The most beautiful...