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Word: ballrooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brown flunkies scoured floors, made them slippery with shining wax, lighted candles. In strutted hundreds of preening women, gorgeously gowned in native plumery. A formal ball was being held in the provincial palace. The guest of honor, Mr. Thompson, strode not without dignity to the centre of the immense ballroom, made a speech in which he urged that the acreage of coconut crops be increased, since coconuts are essential in making oils, soap, cosmetics and substitutes for butter, lard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Welcome^ Mr. Thompson | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...King-Emperor, attired in a military uniform, freighted traditionally with medals, passed with his Imperial Consort through the whole range of state apartments -from the white drawing-room to the red and gold ballroom. Edward of Wales followed, bedight appropriately as a Welsh Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Week | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Publishers. The biggest, the central town criers' gathering, was that of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. They met in the big Waldorf ballroom and reporters stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Married. "Maurice" (Maurice Mouvet) internationally famed ballroom dancer; to his latest dancing partner, Eleonora Ambrose, daughter of a Kansas City oil merchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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