Word: cotillion
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...first cotillion is scheduled to be held from 10 until 3 o'clock on Monday, February 3 in the Louis XIV Ballroom of the Hotel Somerset. Providing music for the ball will be Vaughn Monroe and his nationally known orchestra and Harry Marshard, who will care for the Viennese Waltzing...
...report received by Colonel Beverly Ober, State police head in Baltimore. He ordered every available trooper into Worcester County, sent Lieut. Ruxton Ridgely and Sergeant William H. Weber with orders to save the Negro women "at all costs." A member of Baltimore's exclusive Bachelors' Cotillion, twice married, good-looking Socialite Lieut. Ridgely spent his first honeymoon pursuing bootleggers, was famed for his exploits. No mob-fearer was Sergeant Weber, who was badly battered trying to stop the 1933 lynching. They flew to Salisbury, sped into Worcester County...
...spread involved dancing if has involved dancing since the days of the cotillion)." the Bulletin argues, us tongue in its cheek, "and more people would come to a dance if you called it by its spade name. All of which is precious argument. No one ever went to a spread expecting a Punch and Judy show...
Admittedly weakened by the Price-Tiger cotillion the night before, the Prince editors were unable to gain from scrimmage or by any other means, liquid or solid. The CRIMSON's attack was featured by the stellar broken-field ballet of Light-Horse Harry Hammond, who caused a sensation when he appeared on Brokaw Field in full football togs...
Although I have found TIME heretofore a very exacting magazine, I noticed an error in the Feb. 14 issue. The party, or "Mock Bachelors' Cotillion" as you termed it [which young Blaine Fairless, son of U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, helped organize], actually had a receiving line of young men [not young women] holding bouquets of vegetables. Mr. Fairless was one of this number...