Word: ballroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their five-bedroom suite at the Hotel Roosevelt; in the afternoon, a "thank you" meeting for 250 party leaders; dinner in an uptown apartment with six close friends. As the election returns began to pour into Republican National Headquarters at the Hotel Roosevelt, the crowds downstairs in the big ballroom were confident-many wore evening clothes, ready to go out and celebrate. But on the tenth floor, the Dewey party, isolated from press and public, listened tensely. The first tidings seemed "encouraging," but by 11:30 p.m. the news looked bad. Dewey was on the verge of conceding. Then Dewey...
...cotillion "was the main event of the ball, beginning at midnight, after supper. Your partner's first act was to secure a pair of chairs by tying them together with a handkerchief. These were all placed around the ballroom in front of the benches reserved for chaperons and unlucky girls who had no partners. The leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through...
...hours after his tour of New York City (see above), Franklin Roosevelt appeared in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue. The diners-2,000 members and guests of the Foreign Policy Association-were already at their tables. The organ struck up Hail to the Chief; the diners rose, stood for seven minutes until Franklin Roosevelt was wheeled in to his place at the center of the head table...
...York the Yankee Stadium and its 70,000 seats was the issue. Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Oilman Ray Ryan of the Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...
...partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them all. "You go to a buffet supper at Count Bonzi's bachelor quarters and find dining and dancing and everything going on in one lovely long ballroom, overlooking one of the dramatic hills of the city, from which weakling children used to be thrown in the hearty days of the Republic...