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The Astors are the principal real estate owners of America.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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While researching my upcoming novel, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, I was charmed to discover that Astors and Vanderbilts fought to be invited; P.T. Barnum sold tickets to their reception.
Melanie Benjamin: America's Royal Wedding: General and Mrs. Tom Thumb Melanie Benjamin 2011
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A Tory from Churchill's camp encapsulated the Astors' paranoid delusions, when he cut them with the magnificent put-down: "I see you are prepared to put the supposed interests of your adopted class before the real interests of your adopted country."
Viscount Astor, you really are a class apart | Nick Cohen 2012
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Centuries ago, the Astors, Vanderbilts and Roosevelts came here for the summer.
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The Astors soothed suspicions by entertaining in style at Cliveden, their Italianate mansion on the edge of the Chilterns.
Viscount Astor, you really are a class apart | Nick Cohen 2012
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But the shy aviator matters to "The Guest List" because his celebrity is a measure of "a Manhattan-centric culture's redirecting its admiration from wastrels like the Astors to the achieving parvenu."
Reign of the Taste-Makers By Stefan Kanfer 2010
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The Astors purchased Beechwood in 1881 and promptly spent $2 million renovating it to their standards.
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While researching my upcoming novel, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, I was charmed to discover that Astors and Vanderbilts fought to be invited; P.T. Barnum sold tickets to their reception.
Melanie Benjamin: America's Royal Wedding: General and Mrs. Tom Thumb Melanie Benjamin 2011
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Mr. Green says his family has always believed it was designed by noted Gilded Age architect Stanford White, whose other projects included mansions for the Astors and Vanderbilts as well as the Washington Square Arch.
Century-Old Throwback on Staten Island Melanie Lefkowitz 2011
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Hatred of war, antisemitism and, above all, fear of communism drove the Astors on.
Viscount Astor, you really are a class apart | Nick Cohen 2012
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