Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page booklet prepared by its Fashion Committee. The Association, joined by the Merchant Tailor Designers Association, settled down for a four-day annual convention at the Palmer House in Chicago to consider them. In the mezzanine were such exhibits as knickerslacks and directors' suits. In the Grand Ballroom were lively discussions of the color of waistcoats, the cut of coat tails. Haughtily ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended tuxedo vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee...
...modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba's politicos, excepting Surgeon Grau who shut himself up in the Presidential Palace. After hours of wrangling in the ballroom of Camp Columbia word was passed out to correspondents at 1 :30 a. m. that the resignation of President Grau had been obtained. Who should succeed him the wranglers could not decide, wrangled on the whole night and morning until President Grau began to hope that his resignation might not have...
...year. In Chicago she succeeded Mrs. Potter Palmer as social arbiter, gave vast and lavish parties, backed the Chicago opera for years before Insull. She used to buy dresses six at a time, all the same model. She thought nothing of spending $25,000 for roses to bower her ballroom. Suffering from a nervous disorder in 1912, she met Psychiatrist Carl Jung in Manhattan, followed him with her family to Zurich where she lived as his pupil and assistant for eight years. Returning to Chicago in 1921, she picked up a pudgy little Swiss architect, Edwin D. Krenn, brought...
...same thing which has aroused public interest in economics was the chief topic of interest to the economists: money. One afternoon 3,000 pundits crowded the walls of the ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel to hear Professor Warren expound his theory of the relationship of the gold supply to price levels, that the cause of the Depression was that prices outran the supply of gold in the late boom. It was his first public pronouncement since he became adviser to the President. When he had done, the 3,000 listened just as eagerly to Professor Kemmerer who has taken...
...Ball for the New York Nursery & Child's Hospital, was white-haired Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted by bespectacled Major General Dennis Edward Nolan, Mrs. Roosevelt led the marchers...