Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regimental Ball at the Statler on June 23rd honoring Company A was most successful. The main ballroom was decorated with Naval flags and pennants. The evening called for cool whites and summer formals. Mal Hallett's Orchestra furnished the music. Under the direction of Lt. (jg) O. B. Dahle, the N. T. S. Glee Club sang several numbers including the beloved "This Is My Home" by Sibelius, "Service Medley", the Negro spiritual "Steal Away", and "This Is Worth Fighting For", featuring the baritone voice of Ensign Bernard Lamb...
Over the living-room mantle, as in a shrine, hangs a portrait of Woodrow Wil son, by Sir William Orpen, perhaps the best portrait of Wilson ever made. In the ballroom, in pre-rationing days, he some times dined as many as 96 people, to the accompaniment of footmen in bright blue livery...
Born into a wealthy family (her grandfather was Banker Robert Livingston Cutting), she made her own debut in 1890 with the present Lady Ribblesdale (once Mrs. John Jacob Astor). When the family fortune fizzled, she taught ballroom dancing, then began to run other people's parties. Among her notable managements were the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, a Long Island party for the Prince of Wales, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania (remembering the gate crashers, she later remarked that apparently "there was never in history a country which had quite so many warm...
...East's most popular bands...Ruby Newman. We will have our own little system of procuring tea for those who care to indulge... and who doesn't. More details will be forthcoming later. As a matter of historical interest...Bow did the Staler get away with giving their ballroom a Southern name in this Yankee country...
...Lewis remains a first-rate writer. Let's just sit this one out." The time has come for readers to swarm back into the ballroom. In Gideon Planish, his 18th novel, the Nobel Prizewinner has the old shillelagh out and cracks it on the skulls of the "organizators" and "philanthrobbers" who man the huge U.S. industry of fundraising...