Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beads and anklets intended to indicate that they were Aztecs of ancient Mexico. They were students, and eager friends* of students, and joyful models of students at the Academie des Beaux Arts. The year's work was over and preparations were in order for the annual Quatre Arts ball where all cares are lost at 9 o'clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped...
Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton gave a ball before the first Court. First to dance with bobbed-haired Matilda Houghton was Edward of Wales. Chichibu of Nippon, Gustaf of Sweden, followed. Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House looked on. Present was almost everyone of note then in London except Their Britannic Majesties...
Huge circles were marked off on the fairways where the course's architect had calculated that tee-shots should come to rest. They were concentric circles, the smallest, inner one yielding nine points to the player driving his ball within it; the next largest, eight points; a third, seven points. On the par-5 holes there were systems of circles for second-shots to reach. At the greens, the cup was the bull's-eye and there was a special bonus for holing shots from off the putting surface...
Lenglen. On a damp court at the Racing Club in Paris, Suzanne Lenglen and Mary K. Browne, one-time U. S. champion, stroked the ball to and fro. They are good friends and sometimes, in the long pretty rallies, they smiled at each other as if to say, "The spectators like this sort of thing," or "Isn't it exciting!" When MIle. Lenglen considered that a rally had lasted long enough, she hit the ball a little harder than other woman in the world can hit it and relieved Miss Browne of further worry upon the point in question. Often...
...19th." Directions would have been a useless insult. He knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant event** in the social history of the city. He was the son of a Vermont carpenter of French descent; he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped...