Word: ballroomful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That afternoon they got their first look at their old commander at a reception in the ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel. Other people clapped politely. The aging cutups of Battery D let out a roar...
...Egyptian and Israeli delegates sat down last week to discuss armistice, in the ballroom of the Hotel des Roses, U.N. headquarters in Rhodes, they were faced with a gigantic mural of the original sin: a naked Adam & Eve, the serpent and the apple. A few minutes later, the U.N. mediator, Bible-minded Ralph Bunche, tossed them another allegory. Urging both sides to avoid recriminations and "picayunish" quarrels, he said: "There are many eyes here, and motes can be readily found in them." He also warned "governments not involved" in the negotiations not to meddle. "Just a friendly...
...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
Nonetheless, they have dances, and the main memory that came rushing back was about the one that I went to. It took place in a hotel ballroom located three blocks from the school. At the stroke of midnight an awful gray-haired lady blew a whistle, and the girls promptly marched single-file into an armored bus, which took them safely home...
...expression on the face of Republican Campaign Manager Brownell as he twice claimed a Dewey victory; the glum face of Democratic National Chairman McGrath as he first expressed confidence in his candidate, the camera's slow pan around G.O.P. headquarters after dawn, the empty, gaily decorated Hotel Roosevelt ballroom, with no one left to hear a victory speech that no one was to deliver...