Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Donald G. Swenson, Cornell University graduate, sailing on the lie de France, planned an unusual itinerary. Two days in the ship's engine room, four days in the dining room and steward's pantry, several weeks in the Hotel Ritz at Paris, more weeks at other famed European hotels, will complete Student Swenson's postgraduate course in hotel management. In the autumn, Manhattan's Hotel Astor will benefit by his experience...
...snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they had not reckoned with Oppenheim's suave agility in leading his knaves through smooth intricacies to their just desserts...
Will H. Hays, Movie Tsar, leased an apartment upon the highest sleeping floor, the 37th, of the 508-ft, 39-story-high Ritz Towers in Manhattan. His suite, containing only four rooms, spread itself over the entire floor...
...honor belongs to Oilman Frank E. Kistler of Denver, Col., who sometimes dozes on the 38th airy floor of the new and exclusive 560-ft., 38-story-high Sherry Netherland. The third highest Manhattan residence belongs to Poloist Foxhall Keene who lives on the 36th luxurious floor of the Ritz Towers...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor, who is sometimes thought to occupy the highest Manhattan sleeping place, lives no higher than the 29th floor of the palatial Ritz Towers of which he is part owner...