Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messiah. A painting of Dr. Townsend stood last week at the head of the stairway to the Stevens' Grand Ballroom and pictures of him sold fast at 50? apiece. With the pleasant-faced little woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly...
...Dartmouth Barbary Coast Orchestra, acknowledged by many to be the leading college band in this country, will make its Harvard debut in the ballroom of the Copley-Plaza Hotel on the occasion of the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball to be held Friday October 25th. Held for many years on the eve of the annual football game, this function has become traditionally as important to Harvard undergraduates as the game itself...
...dancing. "I did not know the voice of God and went on in the dance. . . . My feet became heavy and the place was no longer beautiful to me. Again the voice spoke much louder, 'Daughter, give me thine heart!' The music died away and I left the ballroom; and for three days and nights I prayed and wept and wrestled for my salvation...
...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 us for a dance . . . quite tall and homely handsome. . . . He danced divinely. . . . Then he spoke: 'How's the chicken business...
...West Point had two good reasons for entrusting the social future of the U. S. Army to slim, white-haired George Roberts and his dark-haired, sparkly-eyed wife. The Roberts' had the endorsement of the Oklahoma Military Academy and they were as great sticklers for strict ballroom decorum as "Madame" Vizay. George Roberts, at 19 in Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school in Okmulgee...