Word: waldorf
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Wecter: "[William Waldorf Astor] on June 3, 1917 . . . became Viscount Astor, amid jeers from a large section of the British press which accused him of buying the title outright...
Gaudeamus Igitur. In Waldorf, Md., Johannes Perre, 67, declared legally dead in 1931 after seven years' disappearance, asked the Government for rebirth, added hopefully: "I feel like a young man, even though I am dead...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, West-tinghouse Electric Corp. treated the press to cocktails, Florida pineapple, breast of chicken on Virginia ham, baked Alaska. As a savory, it brought in 1) its postwar appliance models and 2) a brand new president. Most impressive among the new products was a "laundromat" which automatically fills itself, washes clothes, rinses and drys them, empties, then cleans itself...
...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...