Word: astors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cultureman must have a carefully selected library including several rather seedy books, "picked up in a tiny bookstall on the Seine." He should be able to talk convincingly about his experiences in far-off and exotic lands; he need not, of course, have done any traveling at all. James Astor, who hailed from somewhere in Illinois, built himself quite a promising reputation by painstaking research in travel books without ever having seen the sea, much less traveled. He was sweeping all before him in his senior year when disaster struck one day. He was telling a rapt circle about...
...prepared to deliver the Administration's Sunday punch at Joe McCarthy. Scowling grimly into the microphone, he launched into a 30-minute speech before 12,000 delegates to the 52nd national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, meeting in Manhattan's Astor Hotel...
Shirt Sleeves. Behind a police motorcycle escort, he rolled up to the Astor the next afternoon, just 20 minutes behind schedule. There was a great cheer as he strode to the platform of the Astor ballroom and flung a big brown briefcase beside the rostrum. Grinning broadly, Joe plunged extemporaneously into an hour and a quarter's attack on Communism in Government, broken only momentarily at the halfway mark when he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves...
Divorced. By the Honorable Francis David Langhorne Astor, 39, editor of London's sedate Observer, second son of Virginia-born Lady Astor: Melanie Hausser Astor, after six years of marriage, one daughter; in London...
...Honorable Gent. In a liquor-licensing debate, Lady Astor got A.P.'s dander up by referring to him as "the playboy of the drink world." Snapped he: "A regular course of narcotics would be extremely good for the noble lady and would make her less restive." As usual, she had the last word: "The noble lady will be restive in this House long after the honorable gent...