Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three degrees better than the Ritz," said A.F. of L.'s San Pedro-Wilmington Labor Review. More important, it is a shining example of wartime housing construction. Plumbing fixtures are rough cast iron with plastic handles. Some toilet fixtures have glass pipes. There are no bathtubs or private bathrooms, just showers in central bathrooms. Only lighting facilities are wall plugs for wood-stemmed, paper-shaded floor lamps (one for every man). Bedsprings have wooden bases. Interior walls are mainly plywood...
...studio, spent the next quarter-hour in goofy, unrehearsed chatter with Jane, about a bridge game the night before. It was a hit. By the following year, Easy Aces had gone to Chicago and the big time. Now the Aces live in style at Manhattan's Ritz Tower, get a reported $3,500 a week...
Relations between U.S. and British and other Allied forces are most excellent in London. They amiably crowd the same corner pubs, complain about prices at the Savoy and Ritz, jostle each other in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. In Hyde Park, baseball and softball games are now an evening institution. British civilians gather enthusiastically, but do not understand the game and cheer in the wrong places...
...final verdict will not be reached, however, until 12:30 o'clock this evening, when Miss Moore will personally make her selection assisted by the troupe of Powers models now appearing at the Ritz. "You see," she explained in an interview last night, "there really are no ugly men. A man with a sense of humor that shines through his personality is really not ugly. But there is nothing worse than a sour face...
...ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three times. In the confusion that followed, President Buck blushed deeply. But it would have been no chant of hypocrisy. Gene Buck was eased out, not kicked out. He retains a seat...