Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agnew hesitated for a moment, then police guarding the podium rushed toward Smith and dragged him from the ballroom, as Agnew told the applauding audience to "see where the cameras are going...
Agnew, emerging from nearly six months of silence since his campaign attacks on GOP liberals, found new life for an old theme-the irresponsible dominance of the national media-as he addressed the dowagers and donators in the Sheraton's Main Ballroom...
...architect Ribart de Cham-oust proposed the construction of a colossal, 300-ft.-high elephant whose trunk would send forth an immense jet of water to irrigate surrounding gardens. The elephant would contain a restaurant and ballroom and be surmounted by a gigantic statue of King Louis XV. The proposal was rejected, as were others to construct a white marble obelisk or an enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign...
...decanters, shaped like elephants, from the Jim Beam people. The edition was so limited that only 197 other decanters were awarded to "lucky letter" holders in the audience. As the evening closed, Martha Mitchell seemed especially reluctant to relinquish the stage. For 40 minutes, as impatient waiters flicked the ballroom lights on and off and collected the centerpieces from the tables, Mrs. Mitchell stood on the podium signing autographs, repeating over and over, "I love it. I love...
...Buckminister Fuller, technological visionary of "Spaceship Earth," spoke to a capacity crowd in the grand ballroom of the Boston Sheraton hotel yesterday evening...