Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They sat on the edges of their chairs, teetering, twisting. Their clothes and manners showed that few of them were at ease amid the splendors of Manhattan's swank Ritz-Carlton Hotel. But it was less their surroundings than the fateful decision that each & every one of them was about to make that caused them to squirm nervously...
...sure $2,000 return on each one's $2.50 investment. It also meant a chance to win $150,000, $75,000 or $50,000 for tickets on the horses which took first, second or third places. But there were 37 horses entered in the race. And at the Ritz-Carlton last week sat a big, bland, dapper, young Briton ready to pay from $3.500 to $16,800 cash for tickets on a large number of likely winners...
...last week Mr. Freeman installed himself at the Ritz-Carlton with a telephone and a great stack of U. S. currency at his elbow. Cables streamed in from London with instructions, betting odds. One after another ticket-holders shambled into his office, nervous, undecided, wanting to haggle. Mr. Freeman remained cool, crisp, firm as ever his father had been. "Take it or leave it. That's the price now and we may not be buying tickets on that horse later...
...suite at the Ritz-Carlton newshawks found Sidney Freeman with a headache. He was busy now offering cash to prize-winners who would otherwise have to wait months for their money from overseas. He would pay $145,000 for a $150,000 ticket. Asked if he had bought any tickets on the winner, he remarked cheerfully, "I thought I had one, but I found I hadn't. Well, we take a loss of about $150,000. It does not matter so much. . . . I'll be back in January...
...Seldom has any hotel sheltered so much royalty as the Paris Ritz that night. On the register were Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, Princess Ileana and her husband Archduke Anton of Habsburg, Infante Alfonso of Spain, Grand Duke Cyril of Russia and his son Prince Vladimir, Princess Marina of Greece. Mr. & Mrs. Johnson of Pembina, N. Dak. complained of the service...