Word: waldorf
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...trouble for his peripatetic marital habits, the older Patiño picked up his traveling kit for reasons, said rumor, connected with the hue & cry over the untaxed profits of nonresident aliens in the U.S. Father Simon Ituri Patiño forsook his modest suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the rigors of the low-taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey gloves, he visited the French Quarter. Although rumored...
Recently, the editor and part owner of a thriving Latin American newspaper arrived for a conducted tour of the U.S. For a week he stood the punishment. Then he fled to Manhattan and the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. To a friend he cried...
...Please leave me alone in the Waldorf.' I shall provide myself with the entertainment I want. What I have seen of the United States is awful. Factories, factories, factories! Businessmen, businessmen, businessmen! And people who ask me about Argentina. . .! Thanks, leave me alone. I want blondes, brunettes and redheads. I want them to talk stupid to me. I hate business...
...travels of Fred Balentine and B. Joe Nielson are now history, but include such N. Y. notables as Zanzibar, Stork, Waldorf, Astor Roof, La Martinique, Copacabana, El Morecco, and the Diamond Horseshoe. These muchly-traveled lads must truly be big-city smoothies...
...Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph-record firm. Said he last week to 1,300 fellow cloak-&-suiters dining at the Waldorf-Astoria: "I am not a candidate for mayor. I am on a good payroll now. Please leave me alone...