Word: delmonicos
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Horseshoe flings a gay revue of yesteryear, all fluffy ruffles and "cheesecake." Scenes of pre-War Rector's, of Delmonico's on New Year's Eve with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, a medley of old Ziegfeld Follies tune hits, tincture sex with nostalgia. Waddling souvenir of the past is onetime Glamor Girl Fritzi Scheff gurgling Kiss Me Again...
...cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable cuffs, carried messages through a financial district that rarely saw a woman visitor, never a female employe. Father lunched at Delmonico's, stopped for half an hour at his club on his way home from work, fussed regularly over wishy-washy editorials in morning papers, considered his wife's family damnably inconsiderate, registered automatic, unfailing, profane disapproval of whatever happened in Washington. It never occurred...
...cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable cuffs, carried messages through a financial district that rarely saw a woman visitor, never a female employe. Father lunched at Delmonico's, stopped for half an hour at his club on his way home from work, fussed regularly over wishy-washy editorials in morning papers, considered his wife's family damnably inconsiderate, registered automatic, unfailing, profane disapproval of whatever happened in Washington. It never occurred...
...Sloan still had barrels of money. He spent it with enormous gusto on a Sheepshead Bay mansion, a yacht, roulette, dice, loud clothes, parties at Shanley's, Rector's, Delmonico's. In 1907 he married Musicomedienne Julia Sanderson who divorced him a year later. Most of his fortune vanished in Wall Street because he attempted to "play" along with the rich men for whom he had ridden...
...promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that he had completed an unusual list of depression acquisitions and was carrying on. Today his Manhattan real estate holdings are estimated to have an assessed value of $35,000,000. His biggest Depression purchases: February 1931, 36-story building on the site of famed Delmonico's on Fifth Avenue-formerly occupied by the Bank of United States but now the Ruppert Building; January 1932, the 35-story boom-built Commerce Building at Third Avenue and 44th Street...