Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most film buffs are familiar with the loony malapropisms of Producer Samuel Goldwyn, such as "Include me out" and "I read part of it all the way through." But how many remember when Goldwyn and his competitor Jack Warner co-produced the following wonderful gaffe? At a postwar banquet for Britain's war hero Field Marshal Montgomery, Goldwyn rose and proposed a toast to "Marshall Field Montgomery." After a stunned silence, Warner corrected him, "Montgomery Ward, you mean...
...estimated $100 million to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the revolution that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. There are signs he may be curbing his spendthrift ways: in September, when the country was renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Mengistu opted for a cocktail party instead of a banquet...
Last night's meet brought out the stars of the Harvard banquet circuit, as President Derek Bok, Dean of Harvard College L. Fred Jewett and Director of Athletics Jack Reardon were all present to root the home team on to victory...
...addition to naming Don Peterson its 115th Captain, the Harvard football team passed out a number of awards yesterday at its annual postseason banquet at the Harvard Club in Boston...
...Middle East's other continuing crisis, the Arab-Israeli conflict. The delegates largely ignored the presence of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, and King Hussein tried huddling with him to soothe any hurt feelings. Nonetheless, relations between the two leaders were strained. Arafat petulantly boycotted a summit banquet hosted by Hussein because he was not accorded the honors of a head of state...