Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates gathered in the Riverside's ballroom to show true "democratic forces" at work. The "capitalist" press was barred. A square-set man with a butch haircut, and with a handful of husky aides, guarded the ballroom door...
...From now on, said the Veterans Administration, courses in ballroom dancing are out: the U.S. Government is going to be stricter about what kind of "education" it puts up money for, under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Also out are lessons in applied horsemanship, glider flying, magic, bartending, personality development, and baseball umpiring-unless the veteran can convince the V.A. that they are legitimate aids to his business...
Nerve Center. The Dewey machine was a complex affair. The front which it turned to the public in Philadelphia was the Bellevue-Stratford ballroom. There on the stage a gigantic photograph of the candidate, tinted somewhat too vividly, gazed steadily out over the throngs. Around the balcony hung other photographs: the Dewey family playing with their Great Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked...
Downstairs in the ballroom, the Dewey camp continued to present its bland and beckoning front to the world. While the opposition gnashed its teeth, the Dewey camp staged a fashion show. Delegates' wives sat on gilt chairs, an orchestra played lively airs and a squad of models paraded summer and fall clothes. Crooned Mrs. Edward J. MacMullan, arbiter of Philadelphia society and mistress of ceremonies: "Here you may feast your eyes on the world of fashion . . . Her bathing suit is white Lastex which fits like a second skin . . . This delectable creature is wearing the sort of dress of which...
...appointed day, in a ballroom of the royal palace, Archbishop Damaskinos, Primate and former Regent of Greece, lifted his jeweled cross for the groom and best man to kiss. Then the choir began the Orthodox hymn Devro Nymphi, Devro Nymphi-"Come bride! Come good bride, come pure bride, come, oh beautiful chaste bride...