Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main ballroom was jammed with football enthusiasts for the Gridiron Club's annual dinner. Harlow was seated at the head table three places away from his successor, Art Valpey. He looked tired and now and then he smiled a little weakly. While other diners wolfed down huge planks of roast beef and mountainous ice cream and fruit concoctions, he rolled a boiled potato around his plate as though it was something less than a loose ball and made uninspired passes at some specially prepared orange juice he had brought with him from Maryland...
Harlow received an inscribed gift acknowledging his "Inspiring leadership and high ideals of sportsmanship." Then he addressed the throng of football coaches, sportwriters, athletes, and their guests, overflowing the hotel's main ballroom...
...Bombe Atomic." In a material sense, the dinner, or dinners (there were two: in the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel and the ballroom of the Mayflower) were a success. Some 2,900 Democrats and their wives showed up and, at $100 a plate, cleared $200,000 for the Democratic campaign chest...
...Harvard received. It would seem that their plan was successful, for around the old mansion there grew Radcliffe College. Soon the classes moved to other buildings, and Ireland's Folly was used entirely for administration offices. Board meetings and teas were held in the Oval Room, and the Grand Ballroom upstairs became the headquarters of the Alumnae Association...
...that's where the tall corn grows," Allan Kline climbed the platform and slung an arm around old Ed O'Neal. Ed's eyes were slightly moist. To photographers, he said: "You all be careful not to catch mah false teeth!" Far back in the crowded ballroom, one of the delegates yelled: "So long, Ed!" Ed crackled, and waved...