Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have almost anybody nominated but Mr. McNutt; 3) anathema to New Deal extremists like Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who said last fortnight that Paul McNutt could never win liberal support. Roared genial Mr. McNutt: "You don't know whether the quarterback wants you to carry the ball or to run interference. Sometimes the whole team wants to call the signals. .. . My office [Federal Security Administrator] is only an epithet away from the Interior Department and a stone's throw from the Post Office Department...
Highest point in the high jinks was a Gone With the Wind costume ball night before the premiere, attended by 6,000 celebrants, movie stars and executives galore, Governors of five former Confederate States...
Belle of the ball was Vivien Leigh, who nearly everybody agreed looked right like Scarlett O'Hara. Darkly grinning Clark...
Conspicuously absent from the ball was fun-loving, publicity-shy Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who stayed home with her husband, Adman John R. Marsh. Said friends: "Her dad's ailin...
Famed for her parties was the late Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Until she dropped dead two years ago while shopping in Paris, her tennis-week ball was the No. 1 social event of the Newport season. Lavish was the word for her entertainments at her other mansions in Palm Beach, Paris, Manhattan. But in one of her Manhattan drawing rooms Mrs. Rice never dared to give a party. Reason: she feared for its furnishings, all 18th-Century French, valued at about...