Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale last week went Princeton's learned francophile, Dean Christian Gauss, to speak at the annual banquet of Yale's Daily News. His points: undergraduates have a sound desire for cultural improvement, are not mercenary. Another point: "... Recently . . . Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick announced that there was less drinking in the colleges than before Prohibition. He cited Yale and Stanford. . . . The News and the Stanford Daily refused to accept the intended compliment. ... I do not know about New Haven but with regard to drinking in the colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished...
...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
Almost as if he knew what Col. Lindbergh had in mind Anthony Fokker, addressing a banquet aboard the new Holland-America Liner Statendam, announced that within six weeks his company would complete a 32-passenger plane powered with four 600 h. p. motors...
...government of the United States will be on hand to welcome the delegates. At this session Professor August Krogh of Copenhagen will be the chief speaker. Scientific sessions will be held from Tuesday to Friday at the Medical School. On Thursday evening, August 22, a large banquet will be staged, possibly in Memorial Hall though it is doubtful whether that structure can accommodate a sufficiently large number of people...
Later "Emperor" Cook received the following telegram: "The political bureau of the Communist party in Great Britain observes your treachery to the workers' cause. It reached a further stage at yesterday's banquet in fawning adulation of a typical representative of the class which battens upon workers...