Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Senate session did end, Mr. Huston was nowhere to be found. President Hoover despatched scouts in search of him. James Francis Burke, general counsel of the National Committee and Joseph Randolph Nutt, its treasurer, hurried to New York on a tip, cornered Mr. Huston at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, presented a White House ultimatum, sped back to Washington to report to the President. Next day Mr. Huston cautiously entered Washington, slipped into the White House after dark. Mr. Burke had a statement ready for Mr. Huston to issue as his own. Looking very glum, Mr. Huston...
...raided clubs, night clubs, big hotels. His greatest fame came when he caused $50,000 worth of furniture in Singer Helen Morgan's nightclub to be chopped up (TIME, July 9, 1928). The evening before he went out of office his men descended upon the Hotel Ritz-Carlton while he, in a dinner coat, personally led a raid on the expensive municipally-owned Central Park Casino...
...Mammy and Put tin' on the Ritz (Brunswick)?Paul Estabrook plays the latest Irving Berlin tunes for those who like occasional jazz undressed by orchestration...
...start the first year classes on the path which leads to the ultimate goal of doing the job for monetary reward, even if the reward but provides a dinner, should be avoided. Freshman committees may strive to give their class creditable Red Books and dances, but dinners at the Ritz should be deleted from the program of the Harvard social lion-cubs...
According to a member of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, a dinner is being held for the members of that committee and their guests at the Ritz on the evening of the dance; it is my understanding that this dinner is to be paid for at a price of $3.50 a head out of the funds of the Freshman Jubilee, providing there is a surplus after all bills have been paid, and that the officers of the Freshman Class give their consent. In View of the already high price of Jubilee tickets ($7 per couple, $5 stag), with $1 reduction...