Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brute." Racing exclusively in Europe, where stakes horses get fewer chances to run and purses are generally smaller than in the U.S., the muscular bay had already earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin, France's top rider, a vise-handed craftsman who, at 21, already ranks with the world's best. Even so, Match II went...
...sentimental architecture buffs who mourn the passing of old landmarks. Aroused traditionalists are now battling to save the grand old bulk of Pennsylvania Station, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for two office buildings and a mammoth sports arena. Carnegie Hall was saved, but the old Ritz-Carlton and Brevoort Hotels have fallen to progress and the wrecker's ball...
...with three other post-debs (including her sister Nancy), Ceezee appeared in a cabaret show at the Ritz roof garden as part of an act called "Boston's American Beauties." Her theatrical ambitions were doubtless enhanced by her heavy beau of that time, Movie Actor Victor Mature, who was stationed in Boston in the Coast Guard. In 1944, when she was 24, Lee Shubert gave her a job as show girl in the Broadway revival of the Ziegfeld Follies. One night at a party she met Darryl Zanuck, who arranged a screen test on the basis of which 20th...
...fact, the dedicated International Setter develops a sixth sense about places to be and when to be there. Old-line internationals like the Guests stay at the Ritz in Paris, but according to one observer, too many of the wrong people began to follow the right people there, so the right people had to start going to the Plaza-Athenee, the Lancaster and the Meurice. According to the same kind of Gresham's law, resorts, and even countries, suddenly...
...every night except Saturday, when midnight rings down the curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go-Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel...