Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international touch lent by the presence of the cadets and officers of the cruiser "Karlsruhe" promises to make the annual Military and Naval Science Ball tonight at the Hotel Continental a colorful and distinguished event. Jackie Marshard and his orchestra will supply the music in the modernistic ballroom. The proceeds of the affair to which all University members are invited, will go to Phillips Brooks House...
...thousand ladies and gentlemen in evening dress sat around a narrow, wooden platform beneath the great crystal chandelier of the Biltmore Hotel's grand ballroom in Manhattan one night last week and smiled indulgently as a group of white canvas-clad figures went into a huddle and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, America!" Promptly another huddle formed on the other side of the platform and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, Great Britain!" Then 19 U. S. and ten British fencers were given medals. The British got silver ones. The U. S. team got gold ones and a delicately fashioned bronze representing...
...patronesses for the Sixth Annual Naval and Military Ball to be held on Friday at the Continental Hotel were announced last night by the Dance Committee, Robert S. Hurlbut '34, John F. Maddeb '34, and Paul J. Wolfer '34. The dance is to be held in the new, modernistic ballroom of the hotel, which will hold 1200 people, and Jackie Marshard will supply the music. The proceeds of the affair will be donated to Phillips Brooks House, to be used in defraying the cost of its charity. All members of the University are invited...
...Miss Helene Mayer and Miss Marion Lloyd in the final bout," said the announcer at the national women's fencing championship last week. The people in the boxes of the grand ballroom at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan smiled understandingly. They knew that the announcement was technically incorrect-a defeat for Miss Mayer would mean a fence-off-but they knew also that a defeat for Miss Mayer was highly improbable. A 23-year-old from Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, she was indisputably the best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when...
...highlights of the program was the annual dinner held in the ballroom of the Continental Hotel at 6.30 o'clock Saturday evening. Speakers at the dinner, of which Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was chairman, were R. M. McIver and Petirim A. Sorokin, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard. Professor Sorokin, who selected "The Movement of Important Internal Disturbances in History," presented much material on the prevalence of war through the ages...