Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Examining some of the hotel dancing facilities of the metropolis, impartially and alphabetically, we unavoidably begin with the Copley-Plaza's greenish Oval Room. Life in the Oval Room may be compared to an existence in an attractive but expensive goldfish bowl. Decorated in the stately manner, the Oval Room offers good Marshard music for a large dance floor and what is usually the best revue in town. While the food is fair, the prices, particularly the $1.50 cover and $2.00 minimum on weekends, do not rest lightly on undergraduate stomachs. Most noticeable of all is the impression inevitably generated...
...most dramatic session, Britain's Palestine proposal provided fresh drama. Now U.N.'s Assembly delegates settled down to the infighting around Lake Success' long, oval committee tables. Here, in six main committees and for six days a week, they will spend most of their working time for the next two months. First rounds were raucous...
...Washington. These were dangerous times, and Molotov. decided finally to keep the old-line, ex-Menshevik diplomats (Maisky, Troyanovsky Sr., Surits et al.) from further advancement, push a younger and more reliable set to the fore. Thus, in 1943, succeeding Western-minded Maxim Litvinoff, Gromyko walked into the Oval Room of the White House and presented his ambassadorial credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. Gromyko was then 34, and looked as though he could not tell a demarche from a dinner party. He was definitely something new in the world of diplomacy...
...vibration was hard on drivers' wrists and backs. But the awareness that each turn might mean disaster kept them tense and alert. The basso profundo of a Mercedes growled sullenly out below the whine of Maser and Offenhauser engines as the pack circled the 2½-mile oval...
Wives and daughters of Boston's more adept coupon clippers and a smattering of almost shamefaced Harvardmen gathered amidst the lime-colored elegance of the Copley Plaza Oval Room early this week to partake of creamed chicken and the spinach that if fashion. In an effort to obtain a masculine insight on feminine fashions the management successively selected, wined, dined, and embarrassed an all-male jury...