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Article: `I know the pedigree of every person here' ... and other tales from 75 years of the Ritz-Carlton, Boston.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- October 7, 2002
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Byline: Dana Bisbee
Before the hotel, the crackers or the song, Ritz was a man.
Swiss hotelier Cesar Ritz opened the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1898. He opened the Carlton in London in 1899, and later a world-wide chain of Ritzes.
Cesar Ritz's legendary reputation for quality changed the English language. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes the word "ritzy" was coined in 1920 to describe something snobbish, ostentatious or fashionable.
The Boston Ritz-Carlton was born in 1927, when Mayor James Michael Curley asked real estate investor Edward N. Wyner to build the Hub a world-class hotel. Wyner revised plans for an apartment building he ...