Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hordes of prewar tourists and expatriates who flocked from the U.S. to forgather on the banks of the Seine, a copy of the Herald was a breath from home, almost as good as meeting an old friend from Milwaukee at the Ritz Bar. To hundreds of young newspapermen, a year or two on the Herald staff meant a finishing course in elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop...
...couple of frogs were dining at the Ritz. Complained one: "You haven't spoken to me all evening. You're angry at me." "It isn't that at all," explained the other, "I just can't talk tonight. I've got a man in my throat...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...
...Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone...
...supper dance," kept a famed blue book of 2,000 acceptable young men (Miss Cutting's List), admitted only 100 debutantes to her select list each season. Overseer at hundreds of social functions, she arranged the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania...