Word: mcalpine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...
Arriving at Manhattan's Hotel McAlpin to judge the finals of a contest for the title of Ideal College Girl, careering Novelist Fannie Hurst was disgusted to find that the major ambition of all the finalists was marriage, not a career. She snapped: "I'm sick of the lot of you. ... If this is the younger generation-ugh!" The London Times published a quatrain written by England's Poet Laureate John Masefield to commemorate Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit to Reichsführer Hitler: As Priam to Achilles for his son, So you, into the night...
...puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk of the very land he startled." Said Edwin C. Hill of the Journal and American: "The Corrigan, as cocky a bantam as ever was, opened his eyes in a big, soft bed at the Hotel McAlpin today, and looked out upon a Broadway which had become for the likes of him a street of dreams. And he said to me, The Corrigan...
...Secretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine recommended that trustees of at least New York City hospitals form a hospital council and cooperate instead of working at cross-purposes as they often do. And such a hospital council, the most conciliating, effective hospitaler of the megalopolis, President David Hunter McAlpin Pyle of the United Hospital Fund, last week was all ready to organize...
Left. By Mrs. Emma Rockefeller McAlpin, niece of John Davison Rockefeller: the bulk of an estate valued at $5,648,349; to her two sons and two daughters; in Manhattan...