Word: banquetâ
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...official hostess. With him already was his trusted friend and speechwriter David Edward Finley who after serving as special assistant in the Treasury, had now been made an honorary Secretary of the Embassy. Less than a week after his arrival would come Ambassador Mellon's first trial-by-banquet???the Pilgrim Dinner, with Edward of Wales present to make it special. Speech-loving Britishers sat back to see what manner of quiet address had come to them in place of the eloquence of Davis, the enthusiasms of Harvey, the blurtings of Dawes...
Then there is that little matter of a Theatre Guild banquet???"the most prodigiously dull dinner of my experience." But despite his misfortune one would not have had him miss it. There were 13 speakers, which may have had something to do with it. It began with Heywood Broun, who "said a few graceful things of no special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb...
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