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...siding for private cars, luxury suites with a special entrance, and 2,600 employees. But the new Waldorf opened in 1931, in darkest depression, and it lost from $1 to $3 million a year. Boomer staved off bankruptcy by getting the New York Central to forgive much of the unpaid rent. He taught patrons to eat jellied madrilene in cantaloupe, and devised the now universal card-credit system that enabled the guest to get his bill in two minutes...
Murray, 42, an ex-Detroit reporter of Scotch-Irish-English-Dutch descent, was swept into his unpaid office in 1941 on a clean-out-the-Reds ticket. During the war, when few unions changed their leadership, there were only muffled rumblings of dissent, chiefly from left-wingers. But this year, with Murray coming up for renomination or rejection in June, volley and thunder have come at him from right as well as left...
...course I realize there are some women, cursed with neither intelligence or ambition, who seem to enjoy slopping around in a monotonous condition of unpaid servitude. These, then, are the logical childbearers of the nation-the honored perpetuators of the human race. But for the other freedom-loving females, I say-more and better contraceptives...
...Best Flannel. One consequence was that the main bedroom in the Leighton house was littered with oatmeal dust and old lemon peels "turned all conceivable shades of blue and green mold." Underneath a study table heaped with notes scrawled on brown paper bags, paste pots, unpaid bills and old quill pens sat an assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace...
...square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years ago is 2,500,000 words away...