Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eminent sociologists representing colleges all along the eastern seaboard will gather this morning at 9 o'clock in the Ballroom of the Continental Hotel, for the fifth annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Conference...
...conference will open with a general meeting in the Ballroom, during which the speakers will be Edward Heinmann, Niles Carpenter and Robert S. Lynd. At 11 o'clock, following the speeches, the members will break up into Round Table groups to discuss aspects of the main topic. Professor Zimmerman will lead a seminar on "Research Policies Relevant to Reconstruction Programs." Other seminars will be conducted by Frank H. Hankins of Smith, M. C. Elmer of the University of Pittsburgh, William C. Casey of Columbia, and Albert Morris of Boston University...
Additional Round Table discussion will follow the luncheon and last throughout the afternoon. Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Ec- onomy, Emeritus, will be the chairman of the Annual Dinner Meeting to be held in the Ballroom at 6.30 o'clock at which the speakers will be R. M. MacIver and Professor Sorokin. MacIver and Professor Sorokin. MacIver, author of many sociological works used in courses here will present some reflections of a sociologist on present-day affairs. Professor Sorokin has elected to talk on "The Movement of Important Internal Disturbances in History." He is expected...
With a flick of his tails, he stepped into the Ballroom. Past him foxtrotted five hundred League of Nation delegates, some tall, some ridiculously short; all jiggling merrily to a blaring cacophony from the room's far end. Seventy-five feminine representatives blossomed against the wall, some hiding their disappointment, with pale powdered smirks, other bolder ones occasionally stepping out to cut in on a dancing couple...
...seat auditorium Macy visitors could see & hear, among others, the following experts, in demonstration-talks: Ellsworth Vines, tennis; Lou Gehrig, baseball; Margaret Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet...