Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money is a sine qua non of the research which birth-control leaders have under way. Last fortnight Mrs. Sanger gathered 500 well-to-do and persuaded New Yorkers in a ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. To stimulate donations to support
...Union will play host tonight to the Juniors and their guests. No crystalline ballroom splendor, no mirrored nightclub radiance greet there the visitor to Cambridge. Yet Harvard and its traditions are not of the tinsel type; and though the gray University bedecks itself now and then for merrymaking, it cannot forget its real hue. New England solidity, Harvard, the Union, the Dance, all seem to merge for the night; but the parts show through. They are all of the tradition...
From the Bowman flair for the spectacular comes many a story. Example: Two years ago a delegation of foreign hotel men visited the Commodore. Why not, thought Mr. Bowman, show them a typical U. S. spectacle? So he put up a tent in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore, covered the floor with sawdust, secured sideshow freaks and wild animals from his circus friend John Ringling. When the delegation arrived, it walked into a genuine circus, complete even to an elephant which the Commodore's freight elevator had safely transported...
...dance, which will be held in the Imperial Ballroom of the Copley-Plaza, is especially for members of the Harvard Military and Naval Science departments, but members of the corresponding departments at Yale are also expected, as well as guests of national prominence. One of the chief reasons for changing the date of the affair was for the greater convenience of the Yale men, who could not easily make the trip on a Wednesday night...
...class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition for such a radical change of the character of the dance, but in the opinion of the CRIMSON it would be an ill-advised petition having one chance out of a hundred of being approved by the college authorities. To state the case coldly...