Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost as annoying to the Nazis as the Beggars' lethal pranks is the uncompromising stiff-neckedness of all Hollanders. Typical of the Dutch attitude was the banquet given for the Germans by the Burgomaster of Breda, Barthelomeus W. Th. van Slobbe, onetime Governor of Curacao and a student of history. Compelled to throw an official party for the invaders, Van Slobbe served up a curious meal, topped it off with a flowery archaistic speech. Next day the Germans found he had copied menu and oratory verbatim from a similar occasion after the French conquered Breda...
After registration at 5 o'clock this afternoon, the delegates will banquet at Eliot House, and will take a trip through Boston settlement houses...
...banquet luncheon, special tribute will be paid to Paul H. Hanus, professor of the History and Art of Teaching, emeritus, who founded the organization in 1891. since its inception, the Association has fostered the Graduate School of Education and has cooperated with it to improve teaching methods...
...stuttering, slue-footed James Stewart, who stood low in this year's forecasts but high in esteem for an unrewarded 1939 job in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Alfred Lunt handed the prize for 1940's best male acting (The Philadelphia Story). As the wassail ended. Banquet Chief John LeRoy Johnston was last seen frantically bellowing into the microphone for winners "and Miss Lunt and Mr. Fontanne" (sic) to go below for newsreels. Ginger gushed a tribute to "my mother." Jimmy Stewart telephoned his pa in Indiana, Pa. Pa said bring the Oscar home, and there would...
Women are allowed less leadership in the church than in almost any other field of U. S. activity. But notable at New Haven were the skill and spokesmanship of many an able Episcopal laywoman. Chief speech at the annual C. L. I. D. banquet was given by Vida Button Scudder, emeritus professor of English at Wellesley. Principal speaker at the opening session was Director Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies. Said she: "What does Christianity require of Britain and the United States in their jointly assumed responsibility for world affairs today...