Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in a hotel ballroom, Manhattan, the last two met around a green table to decide the championship of the world. So exact must be the equipment to match the skill of the contestants that the table was electrically heated to prohibit a stone cold surface* deadening the balls...
...that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...
These opinions were not spoken in London last week, but they were expressed unmistakably at a ball given on Edward of Wales' birthday night by the Duchess of Sutherland. Out of a baby-carriage, wheeled upon the ballroom floor, jumped a woman clad as an infant. She squalled, pretended to be teething, she was the Duchess of Westminster, wife of Britain's reputedly richest landed peer...
...Herrick, no teetotaler, may have visited the 29-foot bar, danced in the 1,000 square foot ballroom by Sue et Mare, or shot at clay rabbits in the shooting gallery...
Into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, last week strode Chicago's Mayor, William Hale Thompson. Thereupon a band of Chicago high school students (on special vacation for the day) played the Mayor's campaign anthem, "America First, Last and Always," and a sextette of uniformed Chicago policemen harmonized on the same hymn...