Word: savoyism
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TIME prides itself on its accuracy. TIME therefore will, no doubt, be glad to refer back to p. 14, of TIME, May 9, where there was a paragraph called "Vanishing Coat" telling how David Lloyd George had had his coat stolen whilst dining at the Savoy...
...David Lloyd George has dined many times at the Savoy but in the interests of accuracy-and the Savoy-it should be stated that on this unfortunate occasion he was dining, not at the Savoy but at the hotel next door, or so every London newspaper reported. This may seem a very trivial rebuke, and so it would be, had not your paragraph unwittingly slandered the one man in London who has looked after the hats and coats of more well-known people than anyone else in the world; and furthermore, in a period of 43 years has never...
...Savoy Hotel, London, England...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...