Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris certainly does not compare with London in warlike appearance. Practically no sandbags. The "blackout" is a blaze. No reassuring balloons pattern the sky, no robot aerial guard, fewer cars, of course. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The Ritz barman told me that they now feed alcohol to the cars...
...cost of living has increased 50% in Spain in the past year. Wages have not gone up. Bread lines in Catalonia are longer than during the blockade of the Republic. In Valencia, famed for its arroz dishes, there is a scarcity of rice. Aristocrats dine at Madrid's Ritz on chick peas. Butter, eggs, meat, oil. coffee and sugar are rationed, when they...
...expenses of the pairs, including a week-end at the Ritz-Carlton, train fare, and incidentals, will be paid by the Committee, which will also provide miniatures of the trophy for the winners...
Meanwhile Sumner Welles continued his overshadowed way. Last week when he got to Paris there were 200 mobile guards at the Gare de Lyon, 200 extra plainclothesmen, military motorcyclists to escort him to the Ritz Hotel. The Renault he rode in had steel armor, bulletproof glass, bulletproof tires. Paris correspondents, noting that George VI had received just such elaborate precautions, rushed 50 strong to his first press conference, where polite Sumner Welles reduced them to silence by saying that he could say nothing...
...been working ever since I was 16, and perhaps that's why I haven't had much of a chance to meet many college boys. I used to abhor Harvard men, I thought them dull and conceited; that is, until I came up here to work at the Ritz roof. Since then I've completely changed my opinion because the boy's were simply swell to me then. Now I've determined that if I ever have a son I'll send him to Cambridge...