Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. William Goadby Loew was some 25 years older, somewhat heavier, a great deal richer and a grandfather. Nevertheless, few accounts of any first flight social event, on field, track or ballroom floor, fail to mention the presence of the William Goadby Loews.* Mr. Loew stemmed from the ancient & honorable Manhattan Goadbys and his father was once comptroller of the City of New YorK. He is a member of a dozen clubs including the Brook, the Creek and the River. Mrs. Florence ("Queenie") Loew was the daughter of the late great George Fisher Baker...
...request of the Columbia Broad-casting System, the Band will broadcast a half-hour program over a nation-wide network from the ballroom of the Hotel Copley Plaza in Boston tomorrow afternoon. The concert is scheduled to begin at 2.30 o'clock...
...studied to be a pianist. In Manhattan she founded the Verdi Society to keep the name of the composer alive. Her father was a rich Wilkes-Barre lawyer who died 25 years ago. Mrs. Jenkins is well able to pay for a hall. Last week she hired the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and smartly-dressed New Yorkers fairly fought for tickets to get in and see Florence Foster Jenkins perform...
...just over an hour a double line of sleek Manhattan socialites, confined by a red plush rope, edged down a long corridor, edged past the receiving line, edged on into the Grand Ballroom for dinner. After dinner Mrs. Morrow made a little speech about the initials Y. W. C. A., thought of all the nice things she could which began with Y (Youth), with W (Wisdom), C (Charity) and A (Alertness). To close the program, 500 Young Women trooped in, presented a pageant of Y. W. C. A. activities...
...Chicago last week an expensively gowned and highly perfumed audience crowded the Hotel Stevens ballroom to watch the annual St. Luke's Fashion Show. One hundred and eight young women, wives and daughters of Chicago's socially great, acted as models. The audience clapped appreciatively as Miss Josephine Templeton, in tweed, drove a golf ball into the gallery. Applause thundered forth as Mrs. Solomon B. Smith appeared in Mrs. J. Ogden Armour's own wedding gown...