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Word: ballroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct hit would not get them in the kitchen or other back rooms. For the first time since the war began, veteran correspondents in the lobbies of their favorite hotels joined repeatedly in mad, trampling scrambles into back rooms. A direct hit on the Hotel Ritz destroyed the ballroom at one blast. No guest was killed by this bomb, among those who escaped being young Bill Rogers, son of the late great Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Barcelona Horrors | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...drama, Jezebel is slender stuff. One red dance frock in a ballroom full of white ones could not ordinarily be much of a shock to a cinemaudience. But by force of personal intensity and able acting Actress Davis gives her emotional crises a convincing importance. In fact she establishes her character so convincingly that few cinemaudiences will be persuaded that Julie's sacrificial fade-out is not just another foxy trick to get her man, dead or alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...cabaret which annually follows the show will be in the Balinese Room of the Hotel Somerset on March 31 and in the Towne Club the next night. In New York the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria will house the cabaret, and Deanna Durbin, Libby Holman, Ethel Merman, and Sheila Barrett are among those who are scheduled to entertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HASTY PUDDING GOES ON NATIONAL HOOKUP IN PREVIEW TONIGHT | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

Skating to victory on a floor waxed to the glossiness of a ballroom floor, the Yale Freshmen routed the Yardling basketballers 63-31 Saturday afternoon at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Slip Past 1941 Cagers To Net Lop-Sided Win, 63-31 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Those who could still take it made an historic evening of it by following part of the Goodman band up to Harlem to hear Count Basie's boys battle hunchbacked Chick Webb's men at the Savoy Ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Joint Rocked | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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