Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night he attended an hour-long reception and then marched into the main dining room of the Ambassador Hotel for his birthday banquet. In his main address, General MacArthur made a cloud-high. impassioned appeal for "the abolition of war,"* but his words-in vintage MacArthur oratory-on youth and age are likely to be remembered longer: "Youth is not entirely a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor...
Other spirited occasions took place in the great dining hall. A gay banquet was held in honor of King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales; boxing matches and dice games were not uncommon. The menu was unappealing, however: four dollars weekly for "fish, eggs, and dessert, with meat extra." Such fare drove many students to other places to eat, and 1925 saw the last scrambled eggs in Memorial Hall. Experimental mice in the University's Psychological Laboratories now scurry through the old basement kitchen...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Italian movie reporters, holding their annual banquet for film luminaries in Rome's Grand Hotel, succeeded in plunging some of the glamorous guests, cinemactresses from many nations, into a pleasantly informal rivalry over the matter of whose neckline plunged deepest...
...Negroes are admitted to the club's big banquet hall when it is rented out to other organizations, but only two have ever ventured into the members' private dining room or Press Club bar. One, William Hastie. now a federal judge, was refused service; the other, C.I.O. Aide George Weaver, was served luncheon, but his newsman host got an anonymous letter warning him never to bring a Negro again...
Afterward, Communist Chou tendered a great banquet (on the menu: swallow's-nest soup, kidney, chicken, fish, shark's fins, crab, abalone, mushrooms, Peking duck, broccoli in oyster sauce). Toasts were drunk in Chinese wine. The Chinese showed a movie in color, a harrowing love story. Both sides issued a short statement: "We feel that these talks have been useful." Then Hammarskjold flew back to New York via the Pacific, completing an around-the-world swing. On leaving, he sent Chou his "sincere personal thanks...