Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite for the Kenneth Sterling Day award-if I have a sound moral character-it is because my parents and my religion have taught me the wisdom...
...joyous banquet was given, last week, by certain smart, shrewd citizens of Paris. All are telephone subscribers. Three years ago they formed an association to threaten and intimidate the Ministry of Commerce (posts & telegraphs) into providing better, faster telephone connections...
Result: much new and efficient telephone equipment has been Hoovered into service by dynamic, persuasive M. Bokanowski.* Last week he presided with dancing eyes over the banquet given at Paris by those smart, shrewd telephone subscribers who instigated the whole reform. They, pleased by the recent marked acceleration of service, gallantly tendered the banquet, last week, to 100 telephone-women chosen by lot to represent their Nimble Sisterhood...
...midnight revelling. She had caught her pupils having surreptitious feasts in their cubicles. She wished to show them that she, their principal, could give much better feasts than they could. Then, Miss Spence was certain, they would break her rules no more. That wise, surprising and effective banquet occurred many years ago, in the winter...
...died in 1923, Miss Charlotte S. Baker became the principal, aided by two assistants, Miss Helen Clarkson Miller and Miss Grace A. McElroy. Miss Miller made an announcement last week which surprised Spence girls more than any Spence girls have ever been surprised since the night of that banquet, long...