Word: waldorf-astoria
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...been a great night for nudging and staring. The 800 people in the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom had paid $250 apiece for dinner, and taken a certain clinical interest in one another. An army of waiters had produced a series of gastronomic spectacles, from turtle soup to brandied cherries...
...such pessimistic talk was drowned out by the hullabaloo raised by the first public showing of the Kaiser and Frazer automobiles in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria (a simultaneous showing on the West Coast was called off because the two handmade models on display in Manhattan were the only ones the company had). Some 156,000 New Yorkers climbed five flights of stairs and stood in line to look at the shiny green and red models...
...members of the National Association of Manufacturers who trooped into Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week were in high spirits. With lowered taxes and an upcoming boom for their products, this seemed like the best possible year for their Golden Anniversary Congress of American Industry. As sauce for this feast of good fellowship and confidence, N.A.M. invited some critical outsiders to tell it what they thought was wrong with...
Millionaire in Chains. The Waldorf-Astoria luncheon celebrated a comic-strip milestone: McManus had started Bringing Up Father in the old New York American exactly a third of a century ago. Its durability was a monument to the public's tolerance of a stereotype endlessly repeated, and to Publisher Hearst's taste in comics. Most readers were under the impression that Jiggs had never changed in all the years they had read it. But it wasn't so: the women's dress styles in Jiggs had advanced to circa 1928, and Jiggs himself looked quite different...
Died. José Maria Sert, 69, muralist in the grandiose manner (his best known works adorn the League of Nations council chamber, the main lobby of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Sert Room); in Barcelona...