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...wall-to-wall Persian rugs at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston are faded. There are large worn-out spots down the middle of the hall runners where generations of peripatetic snobs have tread or trudged. I had been told that the elevators were perfumed. I didn't smell anything. Everyone had been so impressed with the fact that I was going to interview someone at the Ritz-Carlton, and had inspired me with such an otherwise non-existent curiosity about the mystique of those hallowed halls. As I walked through the doors, I indulged myself in the bad pun that...
...surprised I even noticed the carpets in the Ritz-Carlton. Adolescent crushes had faded fast in the cynical Boston climate, but Michael York was still the embodiment of that lost naivete, still subject to my curiosity about what the man behind the actor was really like. Admittedly, my mind was more agitated than my heart when I knocked on the door to his suite, but casual as I now felt in the realization of his relatively small fame. I was still letting myself remain skittishly impressionable...
...never had, and my black patent pocket book and patent heels with a black patent belt to match the heels and the pocket book. This three-piece patent suit I had bought at Saks Fifth Avenue for the history teacher I would adore, and for dates at the Ritz, but the remaining items I would learn to feed to the Charles. Indeed, why else was I going to Radcliffe? A year later, my grandmother's footlocker was still locked, keeping me in stocks at the end of my Lowell House bed. It was patent I no longer needed shoes, pocket...
...administration has consistently denied the granting of rebates/subsidies for a number of reasons. The latest reason for this policy was given by an officer of the University in Monday's CRIMSON article. Charles G. Hurlbut. Director of the Food Services Department, declared, "We don't subsidize meals at the Ritz... or at Elsie's so why should we subsidize meals at Hillel?" To compare any private eating establishment to a University recognized institution whose purpose is to serve students attempting to live according to their religious beliefs shows a great disregard for the importance of religious expression. Does...
Electronic Barkeep. Men on the working side of a bar are often reputed to have near-occult talents: only the legendary Harry of the Ritz could make the splendid martini; only Emory of Barbados understood the mysteries of rum punch. Now modern technology has provided a substitute: a device marketed by National Cash Register Co. with the drab name of Electra...