Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will act as active ball bearers are T. J. Campbell '12, H. W. Clark, Sidney Curtis '05, R. T. Fisher '98, C. F. Getchell and Mathew Luce '91, L. F. Daley '27 will be head usher and will be assisted by the captains and managers of five major sports teams...
...present King and Queen, then Prince and Princess of Wales, donned masquerade costume and attended a great ball at Devonshire House. George V, with his traditional distaste for dancing, stood watching some rather portly couples pirouette. "Humph!" he exclaimed to a friend, "they look like people pushing wheelbarrows." A distaste for even the slight subterfuge of fancy dress is characteristic of both Their Majesties. And, today, as King and Queen they masquerade no more. Paradoxically they are fated to wear at every State function robes and diadems more breath-taking than any fancy dress...
...Mateo, Calif., wishing to attract attention at a friend's Persian ball, one George Pope Jr., poloist, dressed up as a Persian chief, mounted a white horse, rode to the friend's front door, asked for the butler, spurred up the steps past gaping guards, clattered through the reception hall into the ballroom. The band blared. Women squealed. The white horse slithered. Mr, Pope fell...
Florence Walton, famed onetime wife of the late Maurice Mouvet, now dancing in a Paris revue with Georges Carpentier, was photographed with him a fortnight ago as they appeared at an Egyptian ball. M. Carpentier, painted powdered and jeweled, was dressed in satin like an Egyptian queen...
...record of the visitors is not particularly impressive and the University ball players should have little serious opposition to stand in the way of a twentieth win for the season. The Villanova group has been beaten by Holy Cross and Boston College in its trip through New England, both nines which have fallen before the Crimson sluggers...