Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climb out of the hole, which was a volcanic pit with vertical sides. Soon the sloth died and the indifferent bats dropped their guano on its dead body. Good for modern paleontology was their filthy covering. It preserved the sloth-bones, teeth, tendons, hide and even a food ball in its stomach. Recently one Ewing Waterhouse of El Paso descended the pit and found the remains, which forthwith went to Yale's Peabody Museum. It is the third and best-preserved ground sloth known, reported Yale's Richard Sivann Lull...
John North Willys (Willys-Knight, Stearns-Knighf, Whippet) introduced his daughter Virginia to society with a very large Manhattan ball...
...given in their honor before the concert at the Community Players' Theatre. A full appreciative house applauded the performance, honors going to J. S. B. Archer '30, soloist, and Robert Reinhart '20, prestidigitator and magician. A short dance at the Theatre was soon deserted for the more festive debutante ball at the Genesee Valley Club where breakfast was served at 5.30 o'clock for the remaining guests. The special cars left for Buffalo and Niagara Falls at 6.28 o'clock...
...Queen City Club given by the Harvard Club. The concert was given on the Hotel Gibson Roof Garden with cabaret and night club effects, the spectators sitting at tables. After the concert the Gold Coast Orchestra played for dancing, but most of the members adjourned to the large debutante ball at the Hotel Sinton which lasted until 6 o'clock. The only incident of anyone almost getting left occurred here when the Indianapolis-bound train was stopped as it was leaving the station to take on several late arrivals...
...value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock Alley, memories of the Bradley-Martin ball...