Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dalhart's Last Man's Club held a banquet to celebrate lush crops, a record rainfall, the Dust Bowl's end. During the banquet the air got stuffy, and somebody turned on the long-unused air conditioner. Clouds of dust billowed into the banquet hall, drove the Last Men out into the rain...
...dinner over, Dictator Stalin led his bulging, elated guests from the banquet hall. Turning to them, he courteously observed: "The lavatory is on the left." Mr. Oumansky again translated correctly...
Once Zuppke and Rockne were invited to the same city to make speeches at the same banquet. "I got off the train," Zup's story goes. "Nobody meets me. I go to a hotel. There is no room reserved for me. I get vun. I go upstairs. I hear a big noise. I look out the vindow. It's a parade. There is a big band, the mayor of the city, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Kivanis. Und it's Rockne they bring along. So ve go to the dinner. Ve speak. Vot do I give...
...Copley Banquet...
...When we get going," Calkins confided yesterday, "we may be able to drop the nobody listening' stuff. The Crimson Network has already approached us, and we might play at the Christmas banquet and Freshman Amateur Night...