Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah Ray, outrageous clowning by the Ritz Brothers...
When Editor Brisbane began to make big money with the Hearstpapers, he started the large-scale real estate deals which made him unique among working newspapermen. In these operations Mr. Hearst was also soon involved. In 1926, Mr. Brisbane built the Ritz Tower apartment hotel, then the tallest (540 ft.) residential building in Manhattan, later selling it to his chief. Together they built the elaborate Ziegfeld Theatre, the Warwick Hotel across the street, took over other hotels, apartment buildings, beach properties. Mused William Randolph Hearst: "Arthur comes to me all the time with some wonderful plan to make money...
...potency of Mr. Davies' political backing was indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
...Pennington, a $35-per-week clerk without "any assets at all," signed surety bonds totaling $40,000,000 on such properties as the swank Bellevue-Stratford and Ritz-Carlton Hotels...
...Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most grandiose of all Fair projects...