Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball was being held in upper Manhattan, for Negro couples...
...heard of Sarazen when he won; no one had heard of Hagen when he came to fame in 1914. Practically unknown were the two golfers who on the first day at Olympia Fields led all the rest. Henry Guici was one, a tiny player, dark-haired, quick-tempered. Frank Ball tied Guici with a 70. No one knew anything about him except that he was a cousin of John Ball, famed Britisher. Either Guici or Ball might win, of course, but the bookmakers didn't think so. And the bookmakers were right, for on the second day Guici...
Farrell and Jones were left with 36 more holes to play to settle the tie. Both showed the strain of the three days' play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead...
...Chicago, sponsored by Louis Eckstein, there are the Ravinia Park concerts. When she arrived in Chicago, last week, after traveling 4,000 miles to sing in the premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...
Such an attitude violates all canons of Spanish honor. Therefore, last week, most Spanish statesmen not of the dictator's own faction pointedly absented themselves from a State Ball given at the Royal Palace in Madrid...