Word: ritz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dialogue this time finds the Lampoon in uneasy editorial agreement with the CRIMSON concerning the new parietal rules. As the Jester says, "Well, they've decided to let you have them in your rooms from eight to eleven Saturday night, when everyone who has any sense is in the Ritz Bar anyway, and not to have them there at all in the afternoons, which is the only time you can copy their Fine Arts papers...
...week the Nigerians-some of them in native costume-went caroling with the other college students, wound up at Rozella's house to help her decorate the Christmas tree. Elsewhere in McPherson there were no miracles to report, but Rozella's skirmish was gaining ground. At the Ritz theater the boys can now have any seat in the house. Luther Palmer and the three other merchants have promised to ask the Chamber of Commerce to look into the barbershop situation. (But the boys were still going 35 miles away to Hutchinson to get their hair cut.) The high...
...areas between Hanoi and the sea, the escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears to be no reason why the besieged defenders of Nasan cannot hold out as long as planes can supply them...
...received a belated bequest from the late Albert Lasker, philanthropist and Manhattan adman: $5,000 and a box of 100 monarch-sized Havana cigars. Said Sir Charles, grateful but slightly puzzled: "All I ever did for Lasker was to get him rooms at another hotel when the [Paris] Ritz was full-up during the tourist season...
Easy Does It! (Benny Goodman; Capitol, 6 sides). The lion of the licorice stick in some of the best of his more intimate work with the trio, quintet, sextet and septet. Includes Puttin' on the Ritz, Henderson Stomp, Makin' Whoopee...