Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lined, lipless ladies and black-bristled men, there was a rush for makeup. Governor Dewey did an expert job dabbing the finishing touches on his own pancake base for interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem...
...Sort of Hobby. Nowadays, the fully-booked Ritz is as fashionable as ever-but not because of its prices ($4 to $20 a day). Even at that, the hotel manages to make a "reasonable" annual profit (which is never announced by the private ownership), maintaining a record that has been unbroken except for two years during the depressed...
Boas in the Bath. Within weeks after the Ritz opened in 1898, the world had become the guest of dapper César Ritz. His intense efforts to please his patrons led to a breakdown in 1911, death seven years later. After that, his personally trained assistants ("the Academicians") and Mimi ("counselor to the management") saw to it that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved...
...himself had to fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...
...owners want more. Last fortnight, Hotelman Conrad Hilton, combing Europe for possible links to add to his U.S. chain, was cold-shouldered when he asked if the Ritz could be bought. Said able Managing Director Claude Auzello: "Being a Ritz stockholder is a sort of hobby . . . The Ritz is an old tradition. It is not for sale...