Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winners of the Woodrow Wilson Prize Essay Contest with total awards of $57,000, will be announced at the annual dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, to be held in the Hotel Astor in New York, on December 28, the anniversary of Mr. Wilson's birth. Two contestants will receive $25,000 each in recognition of the merit of their articles on "What Woodrow Wilson Means...
...other six are: Lady Astor, the Duchess of Atholl, Miss Margaret Bondfield, Miss Susan Lawrence, Mrs. Helen Philipson, Miss Ellen C. Wilkinson...
...Story: In the Astor Hotel, Shanghai, a year ago, one Childs H. Baker Jr. called for a drink. A small native with shoe-button eyes trotted briskly up to him, pushing a white three-wheeled barrow; in the barrow were the materials for making drinks. Surprised by this display of ingenuity, Childs H. Baker selected a concoction of gin, lime-juices, ice & fizzy water. As he quaffed, he became thoughtful...
...Macom. Soon Hero Levine, a smaller, quieter, ruddy-blond edition of Mussolini,* and Jewish† instead of Italian, climbed off the S. S. Leviathan. He answered news-gathers questions as though he knew they were perfunctory, called at City Hall because he was expected there, lunched at the Hotel Astor because he was hungry. He was not surprised that New York did not toot its horns at him and get wildly excited. It was raining...
...lobby of the Astor Hotel, Manhattan, is a favorite haunt of professional women. But the smartly gowned and suited, busily chatting and gesticulating, brightly smiling and bowing congregation that buzzed around the Astor last week, were professional women extraordinary. They had come from far & wide for an exposition of artifacts and manufactures produced by women; to make speeches about women's rise in the world. Many an enthusiastic clubwoman was there...