Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David P. Bennett '42, President of the Student Union, organized the Harvard section of the line. When the America First rally broke up, the pickets, recruited from numerous colleges nearby, moved into the Ritz-Plaza Hall to hear several Fight for Freedom speakers, including Henry B. Cabot, Chairman of the New England division...
Harvard doesn't invest in football players, but there are still some University holdings which Treasurer William H. Claflin '00 doesn't like to be reminded of too often, and the Ritz Tower in New York is going to be one of them. The betting around Milk Street is that the sky-scraping Park Avenue hostelry will be dropped into the pot of so-called "special investments," which don't deserve to get into the big pool of Harvard property because of their "not quite respectable" character...
...world's richest university last week became the owner of one of the world's supposedly swankest hotels. The late Robert Walton Goelet ('02), Manhattan real estate tycoon, bequeathed to Harvard Manhattan's 31-year-old Ritz-Carlton (assessed value: $3,675,000). Harvard will operate the hotel, give Harvard men (and others) an opportunity to advance education by stopping there...
...Ritz-Carlton five waiters took to their heels and got away. Only one, serving a group in the Oak Room, was caught-another waiter took over his customers and his tip. At the Ambassador, at the Caviar, at Joe's Restaurant, other rendezvous from Park Avenue to Sixth Avenue, the Government men struck so swiftly and quietly that customers just thought service was a little slower than usual. At the Pierre, necks were craned when a waiter, led off by two officers, let out a squawk: "They're taking us to jail...
...High-pressure hog Bernie Kamber now spread his unwanted presence across the supper table, and kept looking up between mouthfulls for any 'stunt' which might publicise his beautiful guinea pig," and observer said. His chance came when CRIMSON editors appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...