Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other dinner guests dawdling over their cocktails for a full hour. Wagner was on time for his visit with Queen Mother Elizabeth, however, and reported that the Queen "told me I could smoke, and reminded me that I smoked four cigarettes, one after the other, at the banquet we had for her" (in New York...
...blunders began, but did not end, with Khrushchev's airport speech (TIME, June 6). At a diplomatic banquet in Belgrade's White Palace, Khrushchev insultingly asked the Belgian ambassador whether his country was free, and when assured that it was, remarked that the Belgian could only say that because the U.S. ambassador had just left. Goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin undiplomatically proposed a toast to neutrality, only to have Tito announce bluntly that Yugoslavia was neither neutral nor neutralist, but fiercely independent. Bulganin said lamely he had meant Switzerland...
...Having announced a threeyear, $32,700,000 fund-raising campaign to raise faculty salaries and bolster his campus's teaching and research facilities, Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago had one more piece of news. "I have," he told the annual banquet for "C" men, "a petition signed by some 300 students who say they wish to see Chicago re-enter football ... A president of a large Midwestern public university told me the other day that we must be nuts to think of re-entering the game. But nuts or not, we are giving it thoughtful consideration...
...spot where a leaf stuck to his back. Hagen hurls his long spear through the mortal skin, Brunhilde impales herself on Siegfried's grave, and Kriemhild swears undying revenge. She gets it by marrying Attila the Hun and luring Hagen and his cohorts to a Hunland banquet that becomes a blood bath. Rich with omens and enchantments, brimming with the life, dress and manners of the time, The Twelve Pictures also breathes life into a profounder theme-the last-ditch war of the pagan spirit v. the Christian faith. Author Simon writes a slightly cramped neo-archaic prose...
...know you are all eager to lunch on the CRIMSON'S latest sartorial banquet. Here is a variegated bouquet of spring fashions straight from square dealers. Please look at the pictures and read the captions before tearing this up and hanging it on the little hook in the next room...