Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After navigating the examinations the officers will pass in review at Soldiers Field, climaxing 60 days of intensive instruction in Naval traditions, administration, courtesy, terminology, and officers' duties. Evening will bring the formal ball in the Stailer Main Ballroom, with Ruby Newman's orchestra swinging and Bill Robinson as featured high-spot...
...theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst 18th-Century French paintings, Chinese screens and a slightly rococo splendor, Condé Nast presided, bald and genial, peering sphinxlike through pince-nez glasses, the arbiter of his world...
...juke joints, dine & dance spots have twice as many frolickers as a year ago; everybody seems to have extra cash to spend, especially aircraft workers, longshoremen, sailors. Weekly gross at The Ranch runs up to $18,000, almost double earlier this year. At the Olympic Hotel youngsters jam the ballroom; about 90% of the boys are in uniform. In private clubs (only in clubs can liquor be sold by the drink) business has doubled, and clanging slot machines often pay all a club's operating expenses. Unlike most cities, Seattle revelers bypass cancan shows, prefer jugglers, acrobats, assorted vaudeville...
...Civil War's dingdong battle for West Virginia, when the wounded and the dying of the Union and Confederate armies were laid in rows in the glittering ballroom at White Sulphur Springs-depending on which side held the hotel-this resort nestling in the Alleghenies had already been famed for half a century. Its great colonial hotel, known familiarly as The White, had been built a decade earlier. Before that there were rows of cottages-Paradise Row for the newlyweds, Alabama and Georgia Rows for the rich from those States, Wolf Row for the bachelors...
Farley Still Had the Votes. The air-conditioning fizzled; the ballroom became an oven; delegates shed coats, opened collars. Jim Farley, seeking comfort, had an outside freight elevator drawn up to an open door behind the platform. There he sat on a gilded ballroom chair, fanning himself with a newspaper. Henchmen and enemies walked over, whispered, walked away...