Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ontario branch of the Canadian Prisoners of War Relatives Association took over the entire convention floor of Toronto's bustling Royal York Hotel. Manager Jack Johnson battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown...
...biggest moment was yet to come. To insure the success of the banquet -held to raise money for the Al Smith Memorial Hospital Fund-every ticket holder had been promised a chance to win a genuine 109-carat diamond...
...three days Madame was whisked by Russian and Chinese officials through a good-will round of luncheons, receptions, military reviews and charitable visits. For Red Army heroes, Madame brought Chinese decorations and special Chinese candies. At a Red Army banquet, the Russians toasted her and the Generalissimo in Manchurian brandy. She responded with port wine and an earnest, delicately phrased Chinese wish...
...James's Palace, workmen labored last week cleaning windows and installing a special hot-water system. Here, on Jan. 9, King George VI, whose own state dining room in Buckingham Palace was still not redded up for peace, would entertain the chief delegates to UNO at a banquet...
...would be Britain's first state banquet since the visit of President Albert Lebrun of France, early in 1939, and the King planned to have everything in royal style. The palace chefs would have the night out; special caterers have been engaged to provide as lavish a feast as possible in austere Britain. Wines, including Krug champagne of the famous 1928 vintage, have been carted over from the royal cellars at Buckingham. Servants will don their prewar liveries of scarlet & gold and blue & gold...