Word: carlton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough friends to run a hotel. César Ritz bought the Minerva, in Baden Baden, and carried on the tradition of his Kurhaus. Later he bought more hotels and titled people stayed in them. César knew them all by name. When he opened the Carlton in London, he gave an elaborate banquet. The guests were all titled, with the exception of a few very rich Americans; one of these was a banker to whom M. Ritz extended, gratis, all the facilities of his new hotel before its formal opening because the banker had been recommended...
Last week, to Mr. Keller, there came a new promotion. The directors of the Manhattan Ritz elected him to succeed Duncan G. Harris as president of the New York Company of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Corporation. The directors who elected Mr. Keller to his new eminence were, without exception, gentlemen of ritzy appearance; all are listed in the Social Register; three of them were: George McAneny (architecture), Frank Presbrey (advertising) and Whitney Warren (architecture). The chairman of the board of directors is perhaps the most socially elect among their number. He is Robert Walton Goelet, who belongs to 19 clubs...
...Lampoon announces the election of John Langdon Batchelder Jr. '30, of Boston. Arthur Carlton Chase '29, of Ware, and Albert Goodwill Churchill '30, of Livermore, California, to the editorial board: and of Creighton Marcellus Churchill '30, of Lovermore, California. Willoughby Ingalls Stuart '29, of Cambridge, and John Swope '30, of Ossining, New York, to the Business Board...
...Winslow Carlton '29, F. A. Clark '29, James de Normandie '29, A. E. French, Jr. '29, John de Laittre '29, James Lawrence, Jr. '29, T. G. Moore '29, W. W. Neff '29, C. McK. Norton '29, John Parkinson, Jr. '29, E. W. Sexton '29, H. F. Schwarz '29, R. A. Stout '29, A. R. Sweezy '29, John Tudor '29, R. G. West '29, W. S. Youngman...
Next day, although the Fords put up at the smart Carlton hotel, London, Mr. Ford began his pleasure motoring through England by taking a three penny London bus ride...