Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, dominating, tight-lipped Benjamin Block lives at Manhattan's Ritz Tower, has no country estate. He is no kin to Publisher Paul Block. He says he does not plan to retire from all business activity but has no plans for the future. Benjamin Block & Co. was reorganized as Anderson. Block & Co. with Block's son John Horace as a partner. Son Horace's friends refer to him as "old Block's chip...
Mary Lewis, beauteous Arkansas soprano who went from the Follies to Metropolitan Opera to retirement, tried a comeback during the introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause...
...enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini put the post office, the telegraph...
...three more years in which to revise his book; he was glad dying took him a long time because he could take notes on what it was like, work them into his deathbed scene of Bergotte. As his fever grew worse he sent out to his favorite hotel, the Ritz, for iced beer, took no other nourishment...
...chef and director of kitchens of .the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; of heart disease; in Manhattan. From the ship's galley, to a Bordeaux Inn, to the great kitchen school of Escoffier in Monte Carlo's Grand Hotel, he rose to officiate at London's Savoy and Carlton Hotels, Paris' Ritz and for royalty. Best known Gastaud dish on the Waldorf menu: "The Black Pot," a highly seasoned bean stew...