Word: delmonicos
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...fire; in his prime he was a jovial, auburn-bearded member of 15 clubs-a frock-coated good fellow of the sort that two world wars have made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would say "some damphool thing...
...Houston, Tex. Her father, Felix Haas, a tobacco merchant, died when she was four years old and a year later her mother married Dr. John Alexander McLeay, a Canadian surgeon, and the family moved to Atlanta, Ga. (Now 80, Mrs. McLeay lives alone at New York's Hotel Delmonico.) Sophie's first fling at designing was as a child in Atlanta; she made clothes for her dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where he was in the leather business...
Urbanity Plus. Frank Case was a clerk at the Algonquin when it opened in 1902, as a West 44th Street neighbor of Sherry's and Delmonico's. Soon he was its manager, then its owner. As such, he had no use for the social register or big bank accounts. They made for dull company. He was determined "to get the Arts." He got what he wanted by providing the Arts with good food, reasonable bills which didn't always have to be paid promptly, and with his own unfailing urbanity...
...wife, who often posed for his drawings, has been generally credited with being the real Gibson Girl. The artist first saw her at Delmonico's, arranged to meet her at tea the next day, and married her a year later. She was Irene Langhorne, a Virginia beauty, sister of Lady Astor...
Downey spent six years singing in Paris, London and Dublin resorts, and in his Club Delmonico in Manhattan. He got cocky: "An Irish boy starts to take a lot for granted when you find out that the Prince of Wales, Viscount Castlerosse or Lord Beaverbrook will talk to you like anybody else." Radio fascinated him. "The mystery of the thing got me because a guy like me had to shut the windows on Sunday because the neighbors complained, and here I was getting mail from Africa...