Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leipzig Herr Dr. Bundin chose to die by a method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...
Alcartra Gerben, 6, was primped to look her best. At Calgary, there was a super-banquet, with speeches in her honor. Some 500 folks attended, some from as far away as New York and Quebec. Alcartra took it all as a contented country maiden should. A sleek Holstein, she had yielded a barn-shaking 1,410 lbs. of butterfat, 27,800 lbs. of milk, in one year...
...young U.S. Army technical adviser, "doesn't give them the drive, the personal ambition, the incentive that ours does-they have to talk to so many people before anything gets done." The Government is everywhere, even determining what mildly dirty jokes may be told at a banquet. "Walt Disney is more often than not in the Soviet doghouse since Mickey Mouse frequently deviates from the party line...
Even as Prime Minister King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
...Shorty" Joyner's portrayal of Professor de Haas in three languages, influenced no doubt by the first course, which was served as we entered the banquet hall, was gesticulating and twinkling enough to be convincing; it appears as though we have one man at least who was kept awake during "Stawtees-tics" for a term...