Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oelrichs house, Rosecliff, stood out for almost 40 years as one of the most glittering white elephants of them all. Built at a cost of 2,500,000 solid turn-of-the-century dollars, this summer place of 22 master bedrooms, a fabulous hand-decorated, two-story ballroom and immense dining rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger...
That meeting was the cold-soberest convention the Guild had ever held. Through five sweltering, grueling days, from early morning till after the bars closed, wilted, red-eyed delegates hustled from smoke-filled caucus rooms to committee meetings, to corridor corners, to tense, bitter floor debate in the grand ballroom...
...news was brought to the President as he sat in the long ballroom of the Willard Hotel, surrounded by newspaper veterans, bigwigs from all over the U.S., Washington officialdom, the diplomatic corps and all the quasi-humorous paraphernalia of the semiannual Gridiron dinner. The dinner had been the same, the entertainment duller than usual. Massachusetts' tall young Republican Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., had spoken for the Loyal Opposition...
...dead was Martinus Poulsen, who before the war owned a chain of night spots worth more than ?250.000. But some of the carefree young survived. They dragged themselves out. They went with their bruises and grime to a West End hotel. They washed up. They went to the ballroom and ordered food and drinks. They asked the bandleader for a number they will never forget: Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, How You Can Love...
...spit at 11 a.m." But sing she did, and a whopping fee she got. That was nearly 50 years ago. After Melba, other great and near-great musicians jostled one another to perform for the dowagers at Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings. Last January, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper, ruddy, wax-mustached little Mr. Bagby, 81, was not present: he had the grippe. Later he caught pneumonia. Last week he died. Oscar of the Waldorf, Banker James Speyer...