Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combined talent of six despairing Boston newspaper men, aided by a CRIMSON reporter, failed to derail the philosophical train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual...
...needed to investigate the rotten failure of Prohibition." Said he: "The people know it. The President and his Cabinet know it. Mr. Hughes knows it. Congress knows it. The young people know it best of all. But the prohibitionists don't know it. The Bellevue-Stratford and. Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia station these prohibitionists near the serving pantries of their hotel. They see large glasses of orange juice and bottles of White Rock and club soda going to many rooms on every floor. These good people raise their eyes to heaven and say, now that we have Prohibition...
Every Sunday morning Manhattan converts assemble at the Ritz or Park Lane resolved upon "unfurling the Flag of Universal Peace," "the diffusion of the ideals of Love, Mercy, Justice, Right and Liberty," "the declaration of the Evangel of Happiness...
Puttin' on the Ritz (United Artists). This is a highly conventional film musical comedy, but so well produced and ably cast that if its lines and situations were new it would be the year's best picture of its kind. Irving Berlin's tunes, and such smart players as Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle, and Lilyan Tashman are arranged in support of Harry Richman, Manhattan night-club entertainer, who has never made a picture before and who is suspected of having negotiated his engagement to Actress Clara Bow to make the cinema public curious to see him. The story...
...confrère, Magistrate Herman Satinovera, told Evening Journal reporters: 'Magistrate Waldmayer is the only man in town who serves better liquor than Nocky Johnson at the Ritz. His bar is wonderful...