Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notes between the notes: This "Vargo of a Merge" tune recorded by Mitchell Ayres is the result of a song-writing contest and in written by two residents on San Quentin Penitentiary... Heard Ovie Alston's band playing at an obscure ballroom a short time ago in New York, and they certainly, deserve better work. Most of the band being out of the old Claude Hopkins gang, they play fine stuff, especially the tenor man, first trumpet man Alston, and the second trumpet. Both the latter, by the way, have something unusual-clear easy tones and unhurried, subtle styles...
Armand Perry and his orchestra will feature the second annual dance and May party of the Harvard University Representative Association tonight. Dancing will be from eight to twelve in the Elks Ballroom in Cambridge...
...Malcolm produced a pert blonde housemaid named Joy Higginson to swear she once abruptly entered the ballroom of his house to see Lady Campbell and a Mr. Bruce Keith "embracing as lovers" on a sofa...
...arms high to get them over the edge of the table, and with a sidearm stroke sent the Zanzibar ivory balls rolling smoothly over the green baize. Eleven years later Hoppe, using the same queer sidearm stroke, defeated the long-haired, elegant French champion, Maurice Vignaux, in the bespangled ballroom of Paris' Grand Hotel to become at 18 the world's champion 18.1 balkline billiardist...
...benefit the group staged an impromptu seminar. The onces scheduled for that evening had been canceled because Harvard's Heinrich Bruening, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Government was giving one of the weekly lectures in the stately Colonial ballroom of the college's main building...