Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next evening Caesar Petrillo appeared at an A.F. of M. party in the plush ballroom of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel. To reporters, all of whom are suspect to him, he snapped: "We're just trying to keep these foreign musicians from getting our jobs. Look at the tariff laws.. . . Look at the immigration law. Why the hell should the musicians be suckers...
...sticky in Manila, but by 1 :30 in the afternoon crowds had completely jammed the big ballroom of the High Commissioner's residence. Outside, the MPs fingered their Tommy guns. Inside, the spectators coughed, shuffled their feet...
...Bomb." It was a time and a topic that pressed humility upon the brows of larger men, searching their hearts to root out the seeds of conflict with their fellows. Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts. Tinnily, his arrogant challenge rang through the Astor Hotel's crowded ballroom...
...party Jiggs would have mightily enjoyed. Into the lofty grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, shirt-sleeved waiters, sweating, bumping against chairs and calling hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt's ballroom, dining room and one of her bathrooms, from her abandoned brownstone mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, were bought by Paramount Pictures as props...