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  • Now, evidently, she had blossomed into true beauty, for any time some entertainment was on offer, be it a tea-dance for soldiers or a gathering at some house or at the Broom Hall Inn, according to the girls, it was Tamara who was the center of male attention.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Whenever he looked at Fiona, Jury thought of old trunks filled with taffeta tea-dance gowns, ribbon-tied let­ters, the little paper valentines punched from books that were handed round at school ....

    The Old Silent Grimes, Martha 1973

  • There was a tea-dance at the fraternity house during Prom week.

    The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

  • There's a baseball game with Raleigh this afternoon, a tea-dance in the Union after that, the Musical Clubs concert this evening -- I sing with the Glee club and

    The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

  • In the afternoon they attended a baseball game, and then returned to the fraternity house for another tea-dance.

    The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

  • After the tea-dance and dinner, Hugh left her to dress for the Dramatic

    The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

  • Then Watusk was to give a big tea-dance to get all the people out of the way.

    The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911

  • He say to-morrow night he going to give big tea-dance.

    The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911

  • When Ambrose and Simon Grampierre arrived at the tea-dance they found present as many of the Kakisas of both sexes as could be wedged within

    The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911

  • We often went three miles to look at a tea-dance, and I found it as attractive and interesting as a big circus would be to the children of a civilized place.

    Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear Theresa Fulford Delaney 1881

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