Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
...dividends on a $35,000 investment. All in a breathless few days the young man who was unknown as a bandleader a year ago: 1) got the Glenn Miller trophy for the best new band of the year; 2) signed with Columbia Pictures; 3) added the Los Angeles Palladium Ballroom to bookings at Manhattan's coveted Paramount Theater and Pennsylvania Hotel...
Cried the Philadelphia Record, "John Lewis is brandishing a coal shovel over the heads of the American people again." But when he faced the operators and U.M.W. representatives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week, John Lewis spoke softly. With just the right note of threat and regret, he said he hoped that "the public and Government will not be inconvenienced through stoppage or loss of tonnage vital to ... our war program...
Even as Prime Minister King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
Born in Turkey of Greek parents, Dr. Kyrides came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through the University of Michigan, has devoted himself to two great passions. The other one is ballroom dancing, at which he proved so ardent and proficient a student that he was invited to become a professional. A shyly affectionate man, he often turns up in the laboratory with chocolate bars for his assistants. Sometimes, walking in the street with a friend, he darts into a store, emerges with a bag of peanuts and silently hands it to his companion...