Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buckingham Palace and placed there a fresh cake of soap bearing the British royal arms. This was for the use of King Leopold III of the Belgians, whose state visit went off in glittering, uneventful style as scheduled (TIME, Nov. 22). At the last moment before the state ball there was substituted for the Royal Artillery Band, which even courtiers have called "lousy," swank Marshall's Orchestra. For the first time at Buckingham Palace the crowned heads danced at the same time as the 1,200 guests, whereas previously they have always danced first on a cleared floor, then...
While she was being quietly ousted last week, two younger, more tractable career women received rich promotions. The wife of Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, who bears a strange Semitic resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova...
...Turner and Lou Fette, pitching sensations who turned in 20 wins apiece for Boston in their first year of major league ball, he had nothing but praise. "These boys ironed out the defects that originally kept them out of the majors by years of hard work in the face of plenty of discouragement...
...candidates for positions on the team. In polished oratorical manner he earnestly told the boys about the advantages of keeping strict training, not smoking, and above all of staying away from the evils of alcohol. Not content with merely issuing such negative orders, he decided to start the ball rolling in positive fashion, and so announced that starting on the following day, all men, who were so inclined, were to report at his room at five o'clock; from there a daily cross country run would commence, so that everyone should be in good training when active participation began...
...This attraction to leaves developed in intensity as the weeks passed and finally culminated the night his employer gave a costume ball to please his wife, who was always wanting parties. By this time Mr. Pinkle's diet was so bound up with leaves that he had to have a dozen elm trees planted in his yard...