Word: astorisms
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...through Shanghai. Ninety per cent of all newshawks in China get most of their facts and write most of their stories in the lounges and bars of the three big hotels along the International Settlement's Bund: the Palace and Cathay hotels and across the Garden Bridge, the Astor House...
...Kents' reception, the Duke of Windsor received a telephone call from them announcing that they intended to postpone their visit, they were going to put in a day near Salzburg at the villa of Count Raimund von Hoffmannsthal and his wife, U. S. born Alice Muriel Astor. Rumor immediately went round that the Duchess of Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister-in-law. From British sources in Vienna next...
...that very evening at the Princess, and eleven other shows were doing adequate hot-weather box office. At 8:20 p.m. word was flashed along Broadway, with Broadway's customary flair for the spectacular, that "Lightnin' has struck!" Then, one after another, in the Shubert, Playhouse, Lyric, Astor, Knickerbocker-in all but one of Broadway's showhouses-lights were dimmed and the customers were told to go home. There would be no show that night. Broadway's showfolk had gone out on strike...
...York's Rikers Island jail 44-year-old Socialite Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte visited her husband, 30-year-old onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte. Haled into court to answer a three-year-old speeding charge by police who arrested him while he was tinkering his swank racing car at Roosevelt Raceway, he had received a severe judicial reprimand, a sentence of five days which he spent washing windows...
...lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...