Word: classier
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Hotel St. Regis for a year at a profit. Asked if the cocktail lounge were responsible for having turned the St. Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought it at auction...