Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis' first New York job was in 1924 with Fletcher Henderson's famed band at Roseland Ballroom, just five blocks from the Aquarium. His early records (West End Blues, etc.) were bigger hits in Europe than in the U.S. He followed them across the Atlantic in 1931. Those were the days when he blew screeching high notes that he probably could not make consistently today. When he hit 280 high Cs and then slid up into F one evening, a London theater manager begged him to cut it to 70 Cs, because the noise made him nervous while...
Seismic Hop. In Sioux City, Iowa, a ballroom manager banned jitterbugging, explained to outraged hepcats: "The restriction is not the result of vibrational damage to the building. It is due entirely to complaints of patrons who were subjected to bumps, kicks and collisions...
...Shirley-Savoy Hotel ballroom, Barbara & friends watched with a professional air as sister delegates demonstrated good manners. Everyone enjoyed most the skits showing horrible examples (see cut). The skit which got the loudest applause: "Monopolizing the Telephone while the Rest of the Family Wait...
Midway in the proceedings the President left his seat in the grand ballroom, led a noisy, serpentine parade through the outer rooms where the party's lesser fry were seated. Then, after the whole crowd had jostled into the ballroom, he listened as speakers flayed the Republicans, praised Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R., the common man and themselves...
...audience was hardly worthy of the show: a mere collection of the nation's coal operators-men who recked little of such great echoes, and cared less. The Great Actor was holding forth behind closed doors, in the beige and green ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel. The business at hand, they crossly supposed, was a coal contract...