Word: ritzes
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...cages of gilded wrought iron, will remind a privileged minority of middle-aged Americans of the prewar years when Morgan's in Paris not only tended its clients' investments, but held their mail, minded their children, and saw their maids and steamer trunks safely into the Ritz across the square...
Maxim Karolik, 69, the opera tenor from Petrograd who emigrated to the U.S., married a proper Bostonian millionairess and became the most conspicuous collector of 19th century American art, divides most of his time these days between his late wife's summer mansion in Newport and the Ritz in Boston. At the Ritz he usually lunches alone, but every few bites he springs across the room to greet in heavily accented English some acquaintance at another table. In Newport his batonlike index finger waves to the accompaniment of an avalanche of talk, which is usually about Maxim Karolik...
...brute." Racing exclusively in Europe, where stakes horses get fewer chances to run and purses are generally smaller than in the U.S., the muscular bay had already earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin, France's top rider, a vise-handed craftsman who, at 21, already ranks with the world's best. Even so, Match II went...
...sentimental architecture buffs who mourn the passing of old landmarks. Aroused traditionalists are now battling to save the grand old bulk of Pennsylvania Station, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for two office buildings and a mammoth sports arena. Carnegie Hall was saved, but the old Ritz-Carlton and Brevoort Hotels have fallen to progress and the wrecker's ball...
...fact, the dedicated International Setter develops a sixth sense about places to be and when to be there. Old-line internationals like the Guests stay at the Ritz in Paris, but according to one observer, too many of the wrong people began to follow the right people there, so the right people had to start going to the Plaza-Athenee, the Lancaster and the Meurice. According to the same kind of Gresham's law, resorts, and even countries, suddenly...