Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere was furnished by the food (fried chicken, beaten biscuit) and entertainment (Tapdancer Bill Robinson). Guests numbered 300. Most spectacular Manhattan function was given, also in the Crystal Room, by Mr. & Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton...
...does not seem possible that the expenses for operation will have increased to such an extent because of the transition from dormitory to House. The Ritz-Carlton would be preferable, for at least there are a few elevators! E. C. Morgan...
...rest, under this head, it has not been noticeable that the young men of Harvard have completely taken the veil. Tea time at the Ritz overlooking the Public Garden and the dinner hour at Frank Locke's Winter Place tavern still find the gilded youth of Cambridge in more or less complete possession, and the replacement of the stock of stemmed glassware at the Brookline Country Club is still a standard item on every hostess's dance bill. To be sure, the authorities can usually round up enough studious looking fellows to illustrate the divans in the house libraries when...
Months ago a Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran of Holyoke, Mass. and one William Wilbur J. Cooke of Philadelphia arrived in Boston, put up at the Ritz-Carlton. Mr. Cooke is chiefly famed for having once married the widow of John S. Huyler (chocolates). Mrs. Huyler-Cooke later advertised in the public prints that she was no longer responsible for the debts of William Wilbur J. Cooke...
...leather and somewhat sombre respectability of the Ritz Carlton contributed an air of calm that is quite unusual in theatrical interviews, but Miss Margalo Gilmore of "Berkeley Square" succeeded in providing sufficient zest to compensate for the absent back stage excitement it was a sort of fire without the smoke arrangement which is to say that it was somewhat of a simplification of the ever-present, bold intrusiveness of an interviewer...