Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pushed through the crowds on his way to City Hall, congratulatory hands clapped him on the back, hundreds of people shouted at him from all directions, automobile sirens shrieked in his ears. Mayor J. S. Smith congratulated him. Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems to be a general misconception . . ." and collapsed. Friends attributed the breakdown to nervous strain. Said full-page newspaper advertisements:-"Detroit is proud of the Pride of Detroit and its Intrepid Pilots-Ed Schlee and Billy...
...open date appears on the gridiron list. Brown has been dropped and Holy Cross will fill the place on the schedule before the Yale game, hitherto occupied by the Bruins Springfield and Lehigh are the other newcomers to the Crimson football banquet. All games are to be played in Cambridge except the Yale game at New Haven...
...Bingham's audience was all attention as he proceeded to relate how, a few weeks previously, he had been invited as guest of honor to a banquet in the Army & Navy Club of Manila. Mr. Bingham had asked whether outstanding native politicians, such as President Manuel Quezon of the Philipine Senate or Senator Sergio Osmena, independence leader, would be present...
...banquet in the evening General Smuts said: "In the whole course of my life I have never seen anything so shocking. The country is rapidly becoming a little Russia. But we won't submit...
...Banquet. The Leviathan's dining salon was jammed to bursting with officialdom and oratory the night before sailing...