Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention opened in the St. George's white-walled, flag-draped ballroom. Up stepped Governor Lehman to make the keynote speech. There was only milk-mild applause at his mention of President Roosevelt. But when Jim Farley stepped to the microphone he got an ovation. So did his good friend, Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn, who could win the fight for Farley by holding his 193 delegates fast...
...remodeled structure first saw service on July 24, when it was the scene of the graduation of the latest class of the Navy Supply Corpa School. The Cage has also now potentially one of the finest ballroom floors in the Greater Boston Area...
...more energetic members of the University, Albert Haynes will lead barn dancing in Memorial Hall tonight at 8:30 o'clock. After the all day Outing Club trip Saturday, students are offered an evening of ballroom dancing in Memorial Hall again beginning at 8:30 o'clock...
That night she talked again of war as she went to a foodless and drinkless reception at the Astor. The ballroom was draped with the ancient provincial emblems of the Dutch. Some 4,000 friends of The Netherlands cried "Lang Leve de Koningin" as the Queen walked to her chair on a dais, stiffly waving her white-gloved hand. While everyone else stood up, the monarch remained seated in her chair, told her audience in Dutch: "When ultimately victory is ours and this terrible time belongs to the past, there will rest upon our shoulders the heavy duty of building...
...other movie floods Ambersons with the same revealing eloquence, examining faces, bathrooms, streets, the cluttered detail of the Ambersons' magnificence, from a viewpoint so fresh that it creates a visual suspense in the very act of clarification. Once the camera takes a 350-degree turn round the ballroom at George's home-for-the-holidays party, darting in to pick up revealing scraps of conversation, moving, probing, giving the narrative subtle, succinct meaning...