Word: delmonico
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...Italian newssheets. Meeting in Rome, the International Boxing Federation declared Camera an Italian despite the fact that he once applied for French citizenship. Camera's mother wept when she heard the news. The new champion celebrated his victory by trying to play the concertina in Manhattan's Delmonico Hotel. He planned to go abroad this week. Said he, in patois: 'I've never met Mussolini but ... he sent word that I should visit him after the fight, win, lose or draw. . . ." Last week's was the second spectacular heavyweight fight in a month. By beating...
...once an art student but he went into the hotel business to make more money. With Simeon Ford, chief rival of Chauncey Depew as an after dinner speaker in the terrapin stew era, he owned the lamented Grand Union Hotel on 42nd Street. The Grand Union vied with Delmonico's and the Café Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other hotelman, Sam Shaw was bothered...
...Police Gazette," in announcing the suspension of next week's edition, has surrendered to Fate at last. Next Saturday, good citizens will buy their tabloids all unheeding, and there will be few to weep. But somewhere on the Styx, the shades that once thronged Rector's, Sherry's, and Delmonico's are remembering their old pink sheet. And in that Nirvana where horses go, many an old jade is tossing his head in memory of the Victorias and four-in-hands...
...widely famed character is Editor Keller. But few socialites of the gaslit era were unaware of Col. Mann, who regularly gorged himself on gargantuan meals at the Lotos Club or at Delmonico's, kept an expensive house on Riverside Drive and a summer home at Lake George, strutted about at opera and horse show, a conspicuous figure with his whiskers, flaming red tie, frock coat, plug hat, and heavy walking stick which could make a highly effective bludgeon...
...encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much in his pocket except a cable from William S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., promising him a chance. In November he started the Delmonico Club, broadcast from it first once a week, then three times. Radio listeners liked his voice?high, sweet, and vaguely Irish?so much that a month later he was given a chance to compete with Blackfacists Amos 'n Andy whose grouchy arguments were considered an impregnable favorite with dinner-table...