Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretch with a ten-game winning streak that broke up the race and left them an almost unbeatable 8½ games in front of the fading Cards and Dodgers. The only question left: Who among the rundown also-rans will stumble home second? ¶ At a boozy boosters' banquet during which he was supposed to tell Detroit sports fans how his Lions were going to win back the professional football championship, Lion Coach Buddy Parker suddenly switched signals and announced: "I've got a situation here I can't handle any more. These ballplayers have gotten...
...banquet of love...
ASSUR-NASIR-PAL II was the terror of the civilized world. When he completed his palace in 879 B.C. in present-day Nimrud, northern Iraq, "the Great King, the Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" celebrated with a palace-warming that included a ten-day banquet for the royal city's entire population-more than 69,000-as well as for visiting VIPs. Assur-nasir-pal II had populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history...
Looking for Loopholes. In 1948, while he was picking up some spare cash on the off-season banquet circuit, Birdie, then 36, met a brown-haired ex-WAVE namec Mary Hartnett. Mary was not only exceptionally pretty, but had the added attraction of apparent immunity to the Tebbetts charm. It was nearly a year before Birdie could get a date. But when he did, he wooed Mary with the same ardor that helps him win ball games. They were married in the fall...
...Prison Banquet. To the Texas of the 1880s Will Porter seemed the beau ideal. He dressed nattily, was quick-witted, had a good voice for midnight serenades or amateur theatricals, could dash off a funny verse or a caricature with ease. He married pretty, well-to-do Athol Estes, promptly moved in with her stepfather, and through the efforts of a friend got a job at Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped...