Word: savoy
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...Manhattan arrived last week damp London's courtly George Reeves Smith Esq., perhaps England's leading paladin and patron of the wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...
...curious wine lore. More valuable still, however, are the super-sensitive taste-buds on his tongue, and the keen olfactory sense which enables Mr, Reeves-Smith to classify most wines by merely sniffing their bouquet. For 35 years he has passed upon every vintage offered for purchase to the Savoy. Just now he is enjoying a brief U. S. vacation, resting his taste buds, sticking strictly and amiably for a fortnight to legal U. S. mineral water and the hotel business...
...reputation for speed, no comic myth, follows logically enough upon prolific production. Last year he had six successes on the London stage, and in New York The Sign of the Leopard. In the spring, when only four of his plays were running simultaneously, he gave a banquet at the Savoy for his theatrical employes, and his guests numbered 590. Not content with writing the plays and entertaining the players, he has latterly become his own producer and designer of scenes-all this being a development of the last three years. Readers of the morning papers are more accustomed...
...actually resident in the new Papal State could not vote because they are no longer citizens of Italy. Dopesters estimated that His Holiness' influence had flung into the scale of Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown Prince Umberto of Savoy. There is every reason to believe the stories that H. R. H. detests Commoner Mussolini and once challenged him to duel over what he deemed a point of honor to the Royal House. The disgruntled Prince, recently promoted to the rank of Colonel and stationed in Turin, balloted morosely...
...private office to arrange personal affairs and discuss the Philippine situation for a third time before pushing on to Washington where President Hoover waited to welcome him as a White Houseguest. The State Department was on its toes to greet its new Secretary. Nobody was more excited than "Eddie" Savoy, 74, the messenger who has sat outside the door of more Secretaries of State than he cares to remember. He was appointed to his post in 1873 by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, a son of whose butler and maid...