Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while William Samuel Paley was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story called "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," published it in his Tales of the Jazz Age. Buried on his remote estate a man found a massive diamond; he could buy anything he wanted by merely chipping off a sliver. He lived in super-Oriental luxury, owned hundreds of shirts, hundreds of neckties, socks, shoes. His house was fitted with every kind of comfort-giving device: buttons that brought soft music from an unseen orchestra, beds that tilted and slid...
...story gets under way with Greta doing a Javanese dance very badly before an Oriental God who seems not to mind. In the audience is the somewhat greasy Ramon Novarro, who, in his Russian uniform, looks like a well-trained barber's assistant at any conceivable Ritz. He falls in love instantly with the glamorous danseurse, which she undeniably is, and spends the night with her. Finding it expedient to obtain some dispatches in his possession, she goes to him on the second night, gets the papers, but loses her heart to him, although how she can is inconceivable. Then...
Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, continuing his pointed refusal to sit with the Council, operated somewhat mysteriously from his Ritz Hotel sitting room. Once the General barked: "I'll have a dead secretary if anything leaks out." Later when correspondents suggested that other statesmen with whom he conferred might give an inkling, Hell-&-Maria shrilled: "They are not telling anything about what I have been doing, because nobody knows that except myself...
Last week Newfoundland's money troubles were suddenly solved. No province in distress ever had a stranger saviour. Miss Jeannette Lewis, a stocky lady with a large capable jaw and large capable feet, drove up to Montreal's swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel, registered, and let it be known that "myself and my associate" were ready to lend Newfoundland not only the $8,000,000 it asked for, but $109,000,000. Of this amount $10,000,000 was immediately available in cash...
...delegates looked very owlish and did nothing whatever. The French, sure of their own position, did nothing either, but took pains to be exceedingly polite. Realizing that France and Germany must come to direct terms sooner or later, the French and German delegations stayed at the same hotel, the Ritz. Junior attachés breakfasted together publicly. Swart Premier Laval and stoop-shouldered Brer Briand were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves...