Word: carltons
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Some time ago a scintillating adjective joined the American language. It expressed the superlative of all that is elegant, fashionable, fastidious and rich. From which famous hostelry, the Ritz-Carlton of Manhattan, or the Ritz of London, or the Ritz of Paris this word sprang is a question which philologists must decide. Thus, at least−somehow or other−was born "Ritzy." (See THE PRESS...
That night the doctor gave a dinner to the prohibition agents. He gave it in the Japanese Roof Garden of the Ritz-Carlton. It was alleged that the agents bought champagne at $20 a bottle. In this way they acquired an idea of Ritziness...
Wandering into the main dining room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of an evening you may find him. There he is−tall, sober, the perfect bachelor, who has attained years of discretion. Like a gracious prince−for he is a man of distinction−he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality...
...Baltic (White Star)?Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and her daughter; Mrs. Roswell Miller, bound for Skibo Castle, their Scotch home; Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks, with her son Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and his tutor, Carlton Hoekstra...
...longest despatch ever cabled, it was sent by regenerating repeaters over four cables. "An unparalleled feat," said Newcomb Carlton, Western Union President...