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Word: ballroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayflower Hotel's gilt-trimmed ballroom, the cheers and applause were unrestrained. There were even a few joyous rebel yells as Harry Truman appeared in the doorway, flanked by Mrs. Truman (in green) and Daughter Margaret (in pale blue). Harry Truman grinned and waved happily to the 2,000-odd Jefferson Day diners.* He could well remember the dismal days last fall, when all that Democrat bigwigs wanted of him was to keep out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Politics | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...general loneliness she encountered, started the Spartan Wives last spring. She and some friends of hers invited other campus wives to get together for picnics and "homemaking" sessions. By fall the idea had spread so far that the wives had to hold a mass meeting in a college ballroom to elect officers. The college detailed a woman professor and the director of adult education extension to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fertile Valley | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Glee Club docket shows an eight day schedule, which begins the week's festivities tomorrow with a performance at Fall River. From there, the group will work its way to Washington for a performance in the Presidential Ballroom of the Hotel Statler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organizations Schedule Five Spring Tours | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

High point of the week will be the Friday performance at New York, which will take place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in the Grand Ballroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organizations Schedule Five Spring Tours | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

...dinner in the high-ceilinged ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford last week, white-thatched Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy resigned at 84 as chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association's executive committee. In Pennsylvania, this could be equaled in news value, if not in importance, only by the resignation of Connie Mack from the Athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: From Joe to Jim | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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