Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter-of-fact fashion the editor of Ceske Slovo announced that he could now tell what took place in Belgrade last spring at the annual and, as usual, deathly secret conference of "Little Entente" statesmen...
Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, German philosopher-critic, said in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: ''Chicago is an amazing thing. It is the one place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...
...casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong man supervises, sees there is no disturbance...
...Minnesota legislators a dance hall is "any room, place, or space open to public patronage in which dancing, wherein the public may participate, is carried on and to which admission may be had by the public by payment either directly or indirectly of an admission fee or price for dancing...
...city adolescents a dance hall, by any name, is a place to go and have fun, often the only place...