Word: waldorf
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Calvin Coolidge: " I was present at the annual gathering of The Dutch Treat Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. They gave a show about Sex and Mr. Sumner that came within an inch of making me laugh...
Hastily gobbling "one egg" at the Waldorf, or strolling to Music 4, who has chanced to wonder what Galli-Curci eats at that selfsame hour? What student of English 35a would not be unlifted for having enjoyed Billy Sunday's conception of manna? Even the sleepy, rising late after an evening's enjoyment, might ponder while drinking their coffee, whether Otis Skinner were up yet, and whether he'd ask for one lump...
...Glee Club will give a concert at 8 o'clock tonight at the Waldorf Theatre at Lynn under the auspices of the Harvard Club of Lynn and the Lynn Y. M. C. A. One hundred members of the club will sing under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison...
...Civilization" might work. But suppose we tried it at Harvard. But suppose we tried it at Harvard. Imagine the Bursar eagerly scanning the checks for the Term Bills hoping to find some large ones to make up for the general low average. Imagine a line at the Waldorf cash register without checks and not waiting for change. There would be fewer latenesses at the nine o'clock classes. But every student would undoubtedly run beyond his means in order to avoid living on the generosity of others. Soon, instead of paying indefinite sums for "Snyder and Martin", we would demand...
...time when those who possess more money than knowledge take refuge in the intellectual sanctuaries about the Square, there to remain except for recurrent dashes to the Waldorf--until the period of the Great Plague is over. There that exotic bloom known as a college education can be cultivated "under glass", and many a fragile blossom preserved which, in the open, would never survive the rigors of our northern elimate. And are they not held--like "hot-house" grapes--to be the more valuable because so tenderly and expensively reared...