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Word: ballroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent out three wagonloads of oats, carrots and apples for the city's work horses. Sweet but harassed rich girls prepared to make holiday debuts at Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Baltimore's Alcazar, and in many another big-city ballroom. Boise, Idaho, a city of 40,000, raised a $700,000 hospital fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Christmas, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit. Everybody in the ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel knew that he would be operated on the next day for an ailing gall bladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Crummy & Cloistered | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

First play to hit the airwaves will be "The Case of Jack Freysling" an adaption of a short story by Thomas Calvert McClarey. This will be followed by "One Night in a Ballroom," a "fantastic comedy," by Paul W. Mandel '51 and William S. Wheeling '50, with incidental music by William P. Perry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRV Airs First PBH Show Today | 10/29/1947 | See Source »

...draped, colonnaded ballroom of Paris' decorous Hotel George V, some coals were brought last week to Newcastle. From California, in two specially chartered DC-45, had come manufacturers and models to show Paris the spring styles of San Francisco's up-&-coming clothing industry. The Californians hedged a plush runway with 1,600 Ibs. of chrysanthemums ("blooming three days ago in California"), set up a blinding battery of klieg lights, and surrounded the show with enough hoopla to make the French take notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Transatlantic Marriage | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Eight hundred businessmen, meeting in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler yesterday, heard president Conant discuss the responsibilities of Americans and American universities to the world economy. Conant called "equality of opportunity" a significant American ideal which has meaning "only in a competitive society in which private ownership and the profit motive are accepted as basic principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Speaks in Boston on U.S. Role in World Economy | 10/22/1947 | See Source »

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