Word: regise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wecter: "Vincent Astor, present head of the family and childless, was a phlegmatic youth . . . has become the most progressive of all the Astors-founding model farms and building model tenements for the poor, as well as running de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich."
In less than a month, the First Lady had I) entertained no Washington newswomen at a White House buffet supper; 2) gone to an ice show in the glittery Iridium Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel; 3) lunched at the exclusive Colony Restaurant with Party-master Elsa Maxwell...
Those who say no got a strong advocate last week: Walter J. Ong, onetime professor of English at Denver's small Regis College, now completing his Jesuit studies at St. Mary's (Kansas) College. Said Ong in the Arizona Quarterly: Superman is a Nazi.
Gloria Swanson, 45, high-styled siren of the silents, complained to a Manhattan court that since her fifth husband had left her she had been living on borrowed money, and now she wanted $1,000-a-week support. William N. Davey, 52, who married her in January and left her...
Gracie Hall Roosevelt, Eleanor's late brother, who once proved-to his own satisfaction-that a man could eat on $1.75 a week, left a $278,264 estate but owed more than $37,000 of it. A tax appraisal showed that his Manhattan creditors included the Hotel St. Regis...