Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main Ball Room suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1,500 guests enjoyed some $50,000 worth of entertainment in honor of the coming out of Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. The social spectrum ranged from Cafe Society's fat impresario, Elsa Maxwell, to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The proceedings which lasted till 7 a. m. were news not only in Manhattan but in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles. Two days later an official seal was set on Brenda Frazier's glamor by a court accounting showing that this "infant over 14" has several trust...
...through 1938. In her unglamorous moments, she wears shell-rimmed spectacles and calls her mother, now Mrs. Frederic N. Watriss, "Mummie." In more typical moments, she led a night club's hay ride through Manhattan's streets, served as debutante chairman of charity's Velvet Ball, posed for Woodbury's Soap ads. Last month, publicly expressing displeasure with her daughter's constant publicity, Mrs. Watriss packed her off to Nassau and her maternal grandparents...
John Kieran is short, wiry, grey, bristly and brilliant. Daily in his sport column he reports ball players speaking with the tongues of savants, quotes Latin, law, manages to be humorist, poet and picker of winners. John's radio foray revealed him further as a Shakespeare scholar, an expert on birds and nature, a walking record book on sports, the most dependable know-it-all of Information Pleased omniscient pack...
Tufts played its best brand of ball before a capacity crowd. The Jumbos presented a tightly-knit defense and broke up Crimson passes time and time again. The Feslermen were never able to get a fast-breaking attack started, and their scoring was limited to an occasional basket by Charley Lutz or Homer Peabody. The latter turned in the evening's best defensive job as he held center Charley Tibbs to six points...
Married. Curtis Bean Ball, 42, first husband of Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger; and Katharine Miller Leas, 22, Haverford, Pa. socialite; in Philadelphia...