What is "astor"

Usage examples of "astor".

John Jacob Astor, relative to that portion of our country, and to the adventurous traders to Santa Fe and the Columbia.

John Jacob Astor, the individual in question, was born in the honest little German village of Waldorf, near Heidelberg, on the banks of the Rhine.

As its views, however, were important and extensive, and might eventually affect a wide course of commerce, Mr Astor was desirous of establishing a complete arrangement on the subject with the Russian American Fur Company, under the sanction of the Russian government.

John Jacob Astor III who outranks her, at least according to primogeniture, for J.

Now the Astor House, once the leading hostelry of the city, “isn’t what it used to be.

Then, at Barclay Street, I insisted that we pause a moment to look at the façade of the Astor House.

At Thirty-third Street we were reverently shown the twin Astor houses: two tall thin slices of chocolate cake connected by a low wall.

In the other house lives the true head of the family, John Jacob Astor III.

Shortly after our meeting in the bar of the Astor House, President Grant’s private secretary, General Orville E.

Actually, I don’t think that this is exactly true (the original Astor was a reclusive Medicean figure).

But it does strike me as strange that after two or three generations of lawyerhood such markedly middle-class people as the Apgars should have convinced themselves that somehow they are more special, more distinguished, more truly nice than the great nobles, which, like it or not (and I like it not), is what the Astors are.

William Backhouse Astor née Caroline Schermerhorn alias the Mystic Rose stood beneath a large bad portrait of herself, receiving guests.

Waiting for us on the siding were Ward McAllister and a pair of grooms from the Astor household.

No doubt the Astors thought to save money, since wood is in such ample supply.

The Mystic Rose was indisposed, but there were enough minor Astors to give “tong” to the day.