Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewildered bride was too humiliated to confide in anyone, would not hurt her strict Philadelphia parents with the scandal of a divorce. Devoted and attentive in public, Lehr made her a social favorite. They took part in social life during its most ostentatious period, attended the Harriman ball that cost $100,000, the $200,000 James Hyde ball that became a great scandal, caused Hyde's disgrace. For that ball Sherry's was made over by Stanford White as a reproduction of the court of Louis XVI; Réjane was imported from France to recite Racine...
...most luxurious he had ever seen. His visit brought to a head the quarrel between Mrs. Goelet and Mrs. Fish, who were fighting over young Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet entertained the Grand Duke at her home. Mrs. Fish invited guests to meet the Grand Duke at a dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry Lehr masqueraded as the Tsar of Russia, made...
...President's office Governor Talmadge sat down to explain just how terrible it was that the Government was holding up $19,000,000 of Federal highway funds rather than trust their spending to the Georgia Highway Board. As between two practical politicians, couldn't they play ball together? Considering the President's cordiality, it looked as if they could...
...enthusiastic over their crossroads correspondents. Excerpts from the contributions displayed genuine simplicity, natural beauty, instinctive truth. As intuitive a piece of insight into the female character as ever came from Willa Gather was the report of Deborah Whitaker on her trip to New Hampshire's Governor's Ball, as published in the Milford Cabinet & Wilton Journal. A poultrywoman on the verge of the event of her life. Mrs. Whitaker entered the ballroom, "closed our eyes and breathed a prayer: 'Please, God, don't let anyone mention chickens or the price of eggs!'. . . Then someone asked...
Like two other new materials introduced recently-Nitramon. du Pont's "foolproof" explosive (TIME, Feb. 4), and Solene, a solidified gasoline developed at New York University (TIME. July 15) - tempered glass lends itself to spectacular demonstrations. Last week it was unharmed after a 2-lb. steel ball and a11-lb. bag of steel shot had been dropped on it from six feet, after a pane of it had been placed on an ice cake and molten lead poured on the top surface, after a torsion machine had warped a sheet of it like so much cardboard...