The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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which is filled at the lobby q which is a center of foreign life here. There are quite a number of Russians in the Grand & most of them have French appearance & French manners. One man I have seen frequently in the dining room dining with a woman & small child & he greets this woman ceremoniously by kissing her hand when she arrives.