Word: habituation
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Before the railroads the habitués came on horseback and in coach-&-fours with Negro outriders. Then Chesapeake & Ohio built its main line past the resort. Three U.S. Presidents (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore) had their summer White House at White Sulphur: 13 visited there. In 1860, the gay Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to The White incognito. Fifty-nine years later, his playboy grandson, the Prince of Wales who was to become Edward VIII, repeated the visit...
...Habitués of Sardi's, Broadway's theatrical rendezvous, expect some day to attend an opening of a play like this with some such title as The Battle of the Market Place. For frequently to be seen at Sardi's, where he was long known solely as "Mr. Chocolate" from his penchant for hot chocolate, is a young theatre enthusiast who sees every play that comes to Broadway and has already written three himself (none produced). At present, Mr. Chocolate is too busy to keep up his writing; he happens to be the new president...
...star prisoner last week was, however, no habitué of Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...
...years ago, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, there were four persons known, by name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending...
...physically most beautiful U. S. track, considers itself the musnud of U. S. horse racing. As its annual month of races and sales drew to a close last week, Saratoga was loyally if obliquely defended against the encroachments of newer horse parks by one of its most representative habitu...