Word: waldorf
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...Waldorf, Viscount Astor, better known as the husband of Nancy, Lady Astor, M. P., appeared last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing to give his expert testimony on the "condition of drinking" in Britain. "The most recent development in drinking," said Lord Astor stroking his chin, "has been the use of cocktails. It is a new habit, and I may add that it is apparently growing. It is a habit that has been created by private enterprise because there is money in cocktails...
...Manhattan's Waldorf Theatre all last week, every night was amateur night. Occasion: the eighth annual Little Theatre Tournament, held under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. After 20 one-act presentations had been performed by amateurs from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Albany, Providence, Buffalo, Starkville (Miss.) and Goldsboro (N. C), the following survived for the final round...
Last week was newspaper week in Manhattan. But for the first time in 26 years the American Newspaper Publishers Association and allied organizations and the Associated Press met neither together nor in the sedate Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (now being razed). Instead, to Hotel Pennsylvania went the A. N. P. A.; to the Commodore went the A. P. (TIME, April...
...York "Giants," trustee of New York State College of Forestry, director of the National Surety Company, board chairman of the County Trust Co., and president of Empire State Building Corp.), announced that the plans of the Empire State building, world's largest, tallest, on the old Waldorf-Astoria site on Fifth Avenue, would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street...
...must admit the extreme novelty of the experiment. It is an upward step in human progress; but there is no practical gain, for it is already accepted that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That...