Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read music, plays no instrument well. He became a bandleader for a businesslike reason: to make money. He stuck strictly to his musical last until 1941, when he began buying likely bits of property. The big break came two years later. Heidt guessed that a profitable urban Los Angeles ballroom, the Trianon, could be bought by catching the owner off guard with enough ready cash...
...bootleggers among Topeka's 76,000 population; that every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon the "Soup Man" and fork over...
...former ballroom of Bad Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
Three nights later he used the A.A.F.'s 39th anniversary dinner as a sounding board for foreign listeners. Rising up in the Hotel Statler's glittering ballroom in a cream-colored jacket, he gave a brief earnest of the U.S. postwar intent: "The U.S. wants no power, territory or reparations. All it wants is a just peace...
...Office of Tourism hopefully announced that the season was in full swing. But the opening's aftermath was a sorry letdown. Last week, liveried flunkies and white-tied M.C.s stood at their posts in the Casino, ready to bow like diplomats; but on the ballroom's vast parquet just one couple did their stuff and only a few new-rich lingered over the green baize tables. In the main, Deauville had reverted to its 5,000 year-round inhabitants...