Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the last performance of "Pudding on the Ritz" Saturday evening, the Hasty Pudding Club will give a "leap year" dance upstairs in the Club-house with the Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra providing the music, it was announced yesterday by R. S. Neff '33, undergraduate manager. A large number have already signified their intention of attending, so that the Club will secure permission to remain open after midnight. Tickets may still be obtained today and tomorrow at the Clubhouse...
Awarded. Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, estranged wife of Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher ("Mutt & Jeff"); $5,000 in a damage suit (burned ear) against Charles Jundt ("of the Ritz"), coiffeur; in Manhattan...
...student' Common Room, covered with wall paper which smacks of the Ritz-Carlton, might perhaps be more liveable. Nevertheless, it is popular enough; and tea from a Russian Samovar can be had there every afternoon (at the head tutor's expense). On the other hand the tutor's Common Room has a pleasant atmosphere, although, or perhaps because, it is little used. Lowell is unique in having a tower room furnished with comfortable chairs, sofas, and an excellent plane on which any member of the House can practice. This room is available at a small price for meetings...
Shrewd William Paley knew he had a diamond, but he did not know whether it was as big as the Ritz or just an ordinary diamond. He took three months off from the cigar business to find out. He tightened the contracts so that Columbia had an option on certain hours of its affiliates. In addition to cash, he gave the affiliates Columbia's sustaining programs free (National Broadcasting Co. charges for its unsponsored programs). He gathered 22 more stations into his network. Then he refused an offer of $1,500,000 by Paramount Publix Corp. for his company...
...young William Samuel Paley has kept step with the jazz age. Long ago he set himself up in the world like a Fitzgerald hero. Two years ago he moved into a three-story penthouse on svelte Park Avenue, from which he could look down on a building called the Ritz Tower. The apartment was decorated by Theatrical Designer Lee Simonson. It had a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties, a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase. His modernistic bedroom held a big bed equipped with push buttons for books, chromatic lights, music from...