Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While jubilant Michigan alumni monopolized dinner conversation wherever they happened to be, 2,000 homecoming grads gathered at Ann Arbor that night for a farewell banquet to 69-year-old Fielding H. ("Hurry-Up") Yost, Michigan's Grand Old Man, who will retire next spring after 40 years as football coach and athletic director. Through tear-dimmed eyes, they reminisced about Yost's immortal point-a-minute footballers who, during the first five years of the century, lost only one game out of 57, rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42; the 13 All-Americans...
...Ambassadeurs nightclub, where the late great comedy team of Clayton, Jackson & ("Schnozzle") Durante offered a grade of lunacy which their admirers still feel has never been equaled. Ethel was still far from feature billing and remained so until 1930, when she began to reach larger audiences. At a banquet connected with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign for reelection as Governor of New York she added The Star-Spangled Banner to her lusty repertoire. More importantly for her career, at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, where she was supported by the veteran jazz pianist Al Siegel. she began to stop...
Nazi Alarm. In Buenos Aires on May 25, Reserve Lieutenant Guillermo Eduardo Nelson Horrocks pronounced a eulogistic defense of totalitarian governments and of Nazi war methods at the annual banquet of the Reserve Officers of the Argentine Armed Forces. Investigation ordered by War Minister Brigadier General Carlos D. Marquez connected Horrocks with an abortive Rightist revolution, touched off a nationwide roundup of Nazi sympathizers, started a systematic examination of German schools...
...Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...
Last week, in Columbus, Ohio State faculty members gave a banquet for old Dr. Korell, presented his portrait to the medical school. The old country doctor smiled, ate the dinner, stammered a few words of thanks, wiped away a tear, went home to putter around his garden...