Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...
Flames roared through the Great Ballroom and the bedchambers in which slept Edward of Wales on his last visit (TIME, Nov. 28. 1932). "Come on, boys!" roared the Fire Chief. "Carry out what you can before the roof goes!" As firemen, villagers and servants darted through the smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid...
Parading before a small army of men and women across the roof ballroom of Manhattan's respectable Hotel McAlpin last week were dozens of smiling young women who wore no dresses, no slips, not a stitch of clothing that anyone could see except a corset and a pair of stockings. Yet the hotel manager was not disturbed and no guest complained at the exhibition...
...expensive robes-de-style and no money to pay for them. So the couturiers set out to supplant the little seamstress around the corner by designing all women's clothes, even down to the negligee. These designs, simple, practical, not too expensive, brought the haute couture down from the ballroom to the tennis court...
...chorus girls shrilled "The Star Spangled Banner" but to most of those gathered in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania one night last week the result was so much meaningless lip motion. With better understanding they watched a female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first...