Word: banquet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...
...packed in food until we thought we would burst and managed to wade through five races, photographing as we went, but we caved in before the Tatar banquet...
General Douglas MacArthur, before a banquet in his honor in Canberra, received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Bath, Military Division, First Class-to which King George elevated him in 1943.* From Prime Minister John Curtin (soon to visit the U.S.) he got good wishes: "I trust that [General MacArthur] will live for many years to look back on the day he first arrived in this country for which he has done so much." Responded the soldier: "Two years ago when I landed on your soil I said to the people of the Philippines, whence...
Voronov became Marshal of Artillery, journeyed to the Kremlin to receive the platinum Order of Suvorov. At a crowded Kremlin banquet, Stalin toasted him with vodka. (A U.S. official took one look at Voronov, whispered: "What football team did he play...
...Louis' Coronado Hotel, the world's No. 1 producer of bomber turrets publicly embraced the theory that the best wartime safeguard of free enterprise is low profits. Said Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.'s President and Board Chairman William Stuart Symington Ill, at a labor-management banquet...