Word: savoyism
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...safe, confined himself to abstruse analyses of Marxist doctrine and repeated pledges of allegiance to the Kremlin. Only a few dissident notes were heard, most of them sounded by 41-year-old Antonio Giolitti, a grandson of Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Said Antonio Giolitti: "In Poland and Hun gary the party has been best defended not by those who keep silent, but by those who openly admit the mistakes of the past ... If the men who now lead are incapable of changing, we must change them...
HILTON HOTELS CORP., which already controls three Manhattan hotels (WaldorfAstoria, Plaza, Statler), will take over the Savoy-Plaza early next year. In stock swap, Hilton will give about $15 million worth of its securities for 1,000-room hotel...
...orchestra brought along one of its trustees, Boston Insurance Broker Michael T. Kelleher. Before the concert began last week in the 1,500-seat Savoy Theater, Mike Kelleher drew cheers when he spoke of his father who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Cork. Then the orchestra set its gesture to music, opened its program with U.S. Composer Leroy Anderson's Irish Suite, a collection of slick arrangements of Irish tunes...
Next day she held an hour-long interview with 250 pressmen jammed into the chandeliered River Room of London's Savoy Hotel. Reported Daily Telegraph Newshen Winifred Carr, dolefully: "I've had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink...
Moreover, Diplomat Ward was guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort...