Word: banquet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
After a magnificent banquet in Palazzo Venezia, Béla toasted Benito as "one in whom shines the splendor of an ancient and ever-renewed Latin spirit!" Benito shined up Béla, and as the champagne went round it was conveniently forgotten that one of the chief purposes for which the Protocols were made was to help maintain the independence of Austria. Reputedly last week Hungary was sounded in Rome on the proposition that Yugoslavia, with whom Italy has ended her ancient feud, may shortly be asked to join the bipod, making it again a tripod. Keeping all Hungary...
...with visits to a nearby Bierstuben, 62-year-old Herman Mehner, bald-headed iron worker, was crowned king. Unique even in its distribution of prizes, Vogelschiessen winner is really a loser. In addition to filling the ten-beer boot, King Mehner, like his predecessors, was compelled to give a banquet for all the members of the Verein...
...activity. Moved in the Cuban Senate by Liberal Senator Manuel Capestany was a proposal to confer upon Good Neighbor Roosevelt the title of "Eminent Citizen of America" in honor of his "historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National Theatre mass meeting in honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed a reciprocal trade treaty which lowered...
...first stories are told with almost straight humor. Example: Ineligible for the football banquet because he has no girl to take, a high-school second-string player gets a miraculous date with the prettiest girl in the State. But at the banquet he ignores her completely- he just wanted a big feed...