Word: shoreham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Close harmony was not lacking. Abetted by the Shoreham Hotel's blonde Accordionist Ida Clarke, Senator Byrnes, who opposed Barkley's election, intoned When I Grow Too Old To Dream, and in a sentimental mood Alben Barkley himself, without rising from his seat, gave his favorite rendition of his favorite melody, Wagon Wheels. If there were any discords that evening no Democratic ear would hear them...
Last month she invited the dancer, now Roberta Jonay to dance at the Press Party in the White House (TIME, June 7). Result: Miss Jonay got a job in the floor show at Washington's Shoreham. Ever-generous Mrs. Roosevelt insisted that her friend stay on under her great roof, sleeping in the Rose Room, taking her meals with the family, traveling out Connecticut Ave. every evening in a White House limousine to do her 15-minute turn at the Shoreham. Last week Roberta Jonay, bound for Broadway, was as morally certain of landing a good...
...Washington from the Winchester, Va. farm where he retired ten years ago went eccentric Harry K. Thaw, murderer of Stanford White, to contest a $10,000 damage suit brought by the Shoreham Hotel's Headwaiter Paul Jaeck. Waiter Jaeck charged that Thaw, when handed a $57 dinner check in 1935, had attacked him, ground cigaret ashes into his eye. Waiter Jaeck was awarded $2,200 damages...
...following incident. He was present himself, he says. Last month during the ill-fated munitions investigation, when J. P. Morgan had come down from New York to air his views on finances and housemaids, the law school professor saw him late one afternoon in the lobby of the Shoreham. J. P. was standing alone in front of one of the big windows, looking out over snow-covered Rock Creek Park, whistling a gay tune aloud. On his way to the bar our friend stopped for a moment; he thought he had heard the song some place before...
...including Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, Malvina Thompson Scheider and Marguerite ("Missy'') Le Hand, and wearing a necklace of tiger's claws, the President's wife went successively from the Raleigh to the Willard, to the Washington, to the Mayflower, to the Wardman Park, to the Shoreham Hotel where she cut a great cake into pieces flung as largesse to the crowd...