Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York in the black, and scoffing at Republicans and Democrats who warned that he was vastly underestimating revenue, Rockefeller acknowledged that New York is on the brink of a $90 million budget surplus. That being the case, said he at a crowded G.O.P. $100-a-plate Waldorf dinner. New Yorkers can look forward to a 10% cut in state income taxes in Election Year...
...that his accomplishments are more acoustic than academic. University officials stayed silent on the subject last week, but word leaked out that Porter, on the eve of his 67th birthday next month, will get an honorary degree (best guess: Doctor of Music) at his apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reason for the honor in absentia: Tunesmith Porter, injured badly in a 1937 spill from a horse, had his right leg amputated two years ago, is too frail to under go the ceremonies in New Haven. At week's end, Yaleman Porter got an accolade at the Metropolitan...
...little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit Grand Ballroom was crammed with the high-angled names of the city's society. At the "April in Paris'' Ball at the Astor, socialites shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor...
...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...