Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter speaks "off the record" tonight in the Hotel Continental at the 25th Reunion Banquet of the Law School Class...
Last year, Hollis finished firs, followed by Matthews South and Thayer Middle. At the close of each season, last year, the winning teams took part in a banquet...
...week office boy's job with a company that later became part of G.E. Now it was Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Old-timer Wilson got it from ex-G.E. President Gerard Swope. Then Charlie Wilson took a long, hard look at the past and the future...
...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official...
...silken excitement, the geisha padded swiftly into the banquet hall of an exclusive Tokyo restaurant. Some bore samisens; others struck the classical attitudes of a geisha dance on the soft straw mats. Suddenly the samisens began beating it out eight to the bar and one of the girls let go a gully-low bellow that crackled the paper walls. The girls were doing the Samisen Boogie, a red-hot indication of what people meant last week when they said that Japan was jazzu-crazy...