Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking his collar and neck...
...leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome as first councilor of the Embassy, where his firm amiability in-clined many a Fascist to a friendlier view of German republicanism. Leaving Italy for the U. S., he rose at a banquet given him by his Roman friends to talk about the "understanding" he hoped to promote in Washington. "My house there," he said, "shall always be open to everyone...
...there will be a business meeting and luncheon for the Schools of Law, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, and Business. The luncheon will be followed by specially arranged excursions to local centers of the professions, and businesses which represent these schools. In the evening there will be a banquet, President Lowell being among the speakers...
...Friday, May 18, a general meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs will be held from 10 to 12 o'clock and from 2 to 4 o'clock. In the evening a banquet will be held at which President Lowell will speak again...
Cried Poet Claudel, at a farewell Manhattan banquet...