Word: waldorf
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...sleepy-eyed from a train in Jersey City at 6:40 a.m. "You'll get your waving pictures later," said the Duke to photographers. "I've been waving all over the U.S." The Duchess managed: "Good morning. . . . Awful hour, isn't it?" Then off to the Waldorf-Astoria, for a week in Manhattan, they rolled in an air-conditioned limousine with a gold crown on the door...
Birthdays. King Christian of Denmark, 71; in Copenhagen. "These hard times proceed slowly, ' he said, "but everything is in God's hands." Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf"), 75; on his farm near New Paltz, N.Y. Cinemadolescent Joe Yule Jr. ("Mickey Rooney"), 21; on a Hollywood movie...
Breezily dictaphoned in her swanky, cluttered Waldorf-Astoria apartment, her first columns anecdotalized her famed party guests, repeated such well-known Elsiana as the story of how she rejected a gift of $5,000 worth of jewels from Cartier's, instead hired Fritz Kreisler for that sum to play at a Paris party. (Afterwards, she alleges, Bernard Shaw "rushed up and pointed a finger at my nose. 'Tell me just one thing,' he said, 'is it true? If it is, you are the eighth wonder of the world...
Once he commanded $5,000 for two numbers at William Waldorf Astor's home in London. But Paderewski gave his money away lavishly-$2,700,000 to Poland during World...
...suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, handsome Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires, sadly puffed a cigar, remarked to reporters: "It is not the first time that this has happened and things just take their course." Dr. Thomsen had not yet been invited to leave Washington; the final break in U.S.-Nazi diplomatic relations had not yet been made. But they were badly cracked...