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...Waldorf Astoria, monumental Manhattan hotel, celebrated for its dignity and its cuisine, there was seen last week the annual exhibition of pictures fostered by the Society of Independent Artists, who are notorious for their lack of dignity, their poor taste, and the total inexclusiveness of their membership. But the Independent Artists shows are noted also for their originality and the excitement they cause among untutored art patrons. The exhibition is often referred to as a "circus" or a "rodeo" by such stubbornly facetious reporters as are sent, instead of art critics, to report the affair for newspapers. To exhibit...
...Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns of old may only be found inside the covers of a book...
Some 1,800 fresh-faced women thronged the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Manhattan-delegates to the 13th annual National Convention of Girl Scout Leaders. Their president, Miss Sarah Louise Arnold, made a speech to the effect that there is "more to hope for from the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts than from any other standardized form of education...
...incident inspired Mr. Smith to further devilry. Affixing the signature, Pavel Jerdanowitsch, to the canvas, he changed the title from "Yes We Have No Bananas" to "Exaltation," sent the thing to the Exhibition of Independents at the Waldorf Astoria, Manhattan...
...machines and Lord Kelvin had said of him that he had contributed more to electrical science than any other man. He worked, as he still does, early and late at his laboratory in West 40th St., Manhattan, dining alone at the same hour, at the same table in the Waldorf...