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Word: ritz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible interpretation of the Marxian dialectic, which makes that recreation incompatible with the ideals of the I.L.D. What bothers us in the matter is the name of the hall where the dance is to be held. It seems to us that a place combining the names of Ritz and Plaza should be completely uncanonical and definitively heretical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/11/1934 | See Source »

...Page Miss Glory (by Philip Dunning & Joseph Schrank; Schwab & Dunning, producers) is a broad farce about the beauty prize racket. A pair of idlers are about to be tossed out of Manhattan's non-existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

ROYAL WEDDING - Comfortable covered GRANDSTAND, Seats to view Royal Procession, including lunch at the Ritz Hotel, available. - Write L. N. J., 7526, "Morning Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Agonies | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...pianist. In Manhattan she founded the Verdi Society to keep the name of the composer alive. Her father was a rich Wilkes-Barre lawyer who died 25 years ago. Mrs. Jenkins is well able to pay for a hall. Last week she hired the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and smartly-dressed New Yorkers fairly fought for tickets to get in and see Florence Foster Jenkins perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreamer | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

London's Carlton and Ritz were represented by Director Reginald Charles Vaughan, who used to be Comptroller of the Refreshment Department of the House of Lords and originated, the idea of improvement classes for waitresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels of the World | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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