Word: waldorf
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...doubt is excusable, because, as the novel opens, Lincoln Lord has been out of a job for eight months, has moved from his suite to a single room in the Waldorf-Astoria, and cannot afford to keep their son in boarding school. He maintains face before the washroom attendant at the Greenbank Club, but his lunchroom tabs there are piling up like unshriven sins. The trouble is that restless Lincoln is a job jumper-he has headed four corporations in the past decade. Is he a phony? Lincoln Lord himself is not sufficiently introspective to consider the problem, and this...
...Democrats whooped it up in like fashion. New York Democrats, at a big dinner at the Waldorf, were treated to the spectacle of Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio solemnly reading a "Nixon nomination-acceptance speech," patterned after 'Twas the Night Before Christmas...
...nation's "most outstanding educational television station," announced the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation last week, is San Francisco's KQED. For Program Director Jonathan Rice, the plush banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right...
...example, a few volunteers could well be used to sample the Waldorf's tomato soup. Let those who have scalded their unwary mouthes speak up. Aud if some agency would furnish several desirable young men to wear August's imported neckwear, one would be greatly aided in seeing oneself as others see one,--and much agony might be averted...
...Actually, the most interesting things had happened when he was inside. Getting there wasn't so difficult; at the Plaza you climbed the back stairs and then just wandered. At the Waldorf you took the elevator up and walked through the back door. If everything else failed (and it rarely did) you just walked up to the lady with the list and said, with the slightest mist veiling your eyes, "I met this girl last summer (a short pause) and I haven't seen her since then. Would you just let me go in for ten minutes...