Word: waldorf
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...elderly apple vendor named Mrs. Nellie McCarthy to have her hair marcelled, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria in a silk dress. To exploit Bureau of Missing Persons, First National promised, in advertisements, to pay $10,000 to Manhattan's missing Judge Joseph F. Crater in case he asked for it in person at the box office. Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book...
Untired by his activities in Chicago, Senator Imai then led his compatriots to the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, prepared to hobnob with his great customers, Paolino Gerli, Emil J. Stehli, Ward Cheney, E. Irving Hanson (Mallinson silks), Paul C. Debry (Duplan silks) and many another...
...Chiefly family possessions of the late Romanovs, it is part of the Hammer Collection-largest in the U. S.† And though Collector Hammer was tagged as "first concessionaire in the U. S. S. R.," few people knew just who he was. More of the collection appeared at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Chicago at Marshall Field's, at the Fair. Last week Collector Hammer bobbed up in the news with the announcement that he had two U. S. cooperage plants running full blast making beer kegs from Russian whiteoak staves. Sensing the beer keg shortage he had wangled...
...youngish onetime automobile salesman was at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. when these things happened. In Manhattan, his hardworking, hard-bitten second-in-command, Lucius Bass ("Lou"') Manning, swore that it was no more than a happy coincidence. In his big suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, Lou Manning told newsmen that Mr. Cord & friends were interested in all forms of transportation- except those that run on rails. They began hunting for a shipyard long before President Roosevelt launched the Big Navy program. A shipyard would round out their setup. But Wall Street sized up the deal thus...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...