Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard sledding, because a nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
This announcement came as a result of the Band's concert before the Associated Industries of Massachusetts banquet in October. Influential members of the Association who were present were greatly impressed, and have since convinced NAM convention directors to spend the $3,000 which would be necessary to bring the Band to New York...
...Thomas Jefferson. By banquet time, the nonpolitical, bipartisan veneer had worn away. Chortling Harry Truman told the diners: "I have to deliver an address of a bipartisan nature that will be entirely satisfactory to the Democrats of Minnesota." The diners roared...
...when he arrived, accompanied only by his Secret Service shadows, he found himself at a formal banquet with 200 of the nation's top industrialists. Seated around him were Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Motion Picture Czar Eric Johnston, Arthur A. Frank, chairman of the board of Standard Railway Equipment Mfg. Co., and dozens of other high-powered and high-placed big businessmen...
...band serenaded the annual banquet of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts last night and formally thanked that organization for the $1,000 donation to the Stanford travel fund...