Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone looking for a couple of free seats for the Yale Game had better change their search to a beautiful girl. The committee of the Harvard-Yale Ball to be held at the Hotel Somerset on the night before the game are offering two free tickets to the most beautiful girl who appears in a red dress and two more to the most beautiful girl in a blue dress. All you have to do is find the girl and the dress, invite her to the dance and then hope she invites you up to the game...
There is your chance for a good cheap weekend. Pay $3.50 for a couple ticket to the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Hotel Somerset; invite a beautiful girl in a blue or red dress and let her win two tickets to the game for you; and then win two seats for the Saturday night production of "DuBarry was a Lady...
...Ball is being run for the benefit of the Red Cross. Tickets may be purchased at the Crimson Office or at Leavitt and Peirce's at $3.50 per couple or $2.50 stag...
Most spectacular Afghan ruler was Reformer-King Amanullah, who got his throne after his father had been assassinated and his uncle ousted. Amanullah had bright ideas about westernizing his backward, picturesque kingdom, but unfortunately for him he also accepted millions of dollars in gifts from the British while playing ball with the Russians. In 1929 His Majesty, "out of patriotic and friendly feelings and of his own free will," abdicated and hastily caught a plane for points west. Since then Afghanistan has changed its rulers three times. Present Afghan ruler is Amanullah's cousin, 25-year-old Mohammed Zahir...
...Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before it was considered impeccable enough to meet the exacting standards...