Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bolger, to be sure, is a pretty great fellow, and seems an even greater one by contrast-fair as a star when only one is shining in a show. He repeats his floppy Wizard of Oz scarecrow dance; he wickedly burlesques ballroom dancers; and in the show's and the season's most fetching solo act, he does a perfect soft-shoe routine while poking delightful...
...waltz only by virtue of its three-four time; its tempo (lento) brings it closer to the dark introspective nocturnes and preludes. To Horowitz, however, a waltz must be a waltz; by speeding it up to almost twice its generally accepted tempo, he gives it a ballroom flavor it was never meant to have...
...been a great night for nudging and staring. The 800 people in the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom had paid $250 apiece for dinner, and taken a certain clinical interest in one another. An army of waiters had produced a series of gastronomic spectacles, from turtle soup to brandied cherries...
...though thousands around him died during the Death March, in a stinking prison ship, in a Manchurian prison camp. Last week he took the witness chair in the big Manila ballroom where cool, suave Japanese General Masaharu Homma is on trial for his life. Talking quietly and precisely, as befitted his 28 years of service, Jimmy Baldassare became the first witness to link Homma to the infamous Death March...
Across the Border. At a luncheon in the green & gold ballroom of the Chateau Laurier, Ike put on his shell-rimmed glasses and spoke warmly of Canadian-American relations. He told how 12,000 Americans had joined the Canadian forces during the war, how 26,000 men of Canadian birth had served with the U.S. forces, how they trained in each other's schools. Cheers shook the windows as he made an eloquent, earnest plea for cooperation to keep the peace for the sake of "white crosses, standing in regimented clusters throughout a thousand leagues of foreign soil...