Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominally the banquet was "to celebrate the completion of Blum's 40 years in Fleet Street...
Ralph D. Blumenfeld sat down, flushed, last week at a banquet in London, when the above quoted chorus was chanted heartily by five British Cabinet ministers,* several earls, a great many editors, and Michael Arlen...
...quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until...
During the banquet a telephone connected with Manhattan rang; and Chancellor Churchill answered...
...said, 'Madame, you are not a prisoner, but a guest, in proof of which I invite you to a banquet to- night...