Word: cesar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain, into the life of Shep Tideboy, came Phoebe Dibble & her father, Hooker Dibble, purveyor of herbs. During the night old Hooker passed on, was buried by a solemn little processional. Phoebe stayed on at the Louisiana homestead of the Tideboys until Shep's guardian, Cesar Honfleur, persuaded Shep to acquire an education, respectability. Shep & Phoebe were married. In an incredibly short time Shep mastered Latin, went to the University of Texas, won a fellowship. But Phoebe, tiring of trying to learn out of books, fearful lest she retard the progress of Shep, returned to the road, stayed several...
...dining cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...
...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 and who owns the ground upon which the Manhattan Ritz is built. It seems somehow typical of Cesar Ritz's enterprise that even the earth upon which his pompous monuments are raised should be hallowed by socially correct ownership...
...Detroit Symphony started its season Oct. 13 with a festive program led by Ossip Gabrilowitsch: Debussy's "Fetes" & "Nuages," Berlioz's'"Roman Carnival," Duka's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," the Cesar Franck Symphony...
President Motta of Switzerland addressed 150 celebrities at a dinner and the celebrities?including Mary Garden, the company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture...