Word: waldorf
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...when called upon to speak at a huge banquet in his honor at the old Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
...they were sure their names had been checked off. One of the ladies came up and asked what they were going to do with all the coffee they had left over. "All of Mr. Sage's doughnuts are gone, but we still have 15 gallons of coffee left." The Waldorf, which, by pre-disaster arrangement, had donated the coffee, could not take it back because it had sugar and cream in it. A member of the Shelter Committee suggested that they take it to the City Infirmary, but the lady-in-charge said that it was too late for those...
...uniforms borrowed from San FranCisco's pro football 4gers, Celeri & Co. posed for photographers at Berkeley's San Pablo Playground, and next day slipped quietly into Cal's huge Memorial Stadium for practice. California Coach Pappy Waldorf wasn't supposed to be helping, but he was-with calisthenics, signal drills and defensive patterns. Said Celeri, who, like LeBaron, was getting a $2,000 guarantee for his labors: "We want to win this one badly . . . Even if the game doesn't actually mean anything, we'll look awful foolish if we lose...
...scheme, for instance, which boasts 63 different shades of green and encompasses walls, rugs, the bellhops' emerald & lemon uniforms and the grass-hued ink with which guests sign the register. McCarthy makes all public announcements concerning the hotel (George Lindholm, whom he hired away from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria as manager, resigned quietly last week...
...good, too. The dance had spread to the U.S. In Manhattan, Tony & Sally de Marco introduced a fancy-dress version at the Plaza Hotel and on the stage of Broadway's Capitol Theater. Bandman Emil Coleman was playing it nightly along with foxtrots, rumbas and sambas for the Waldorf-Astoria patrons...