Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished astronomer and scientist, who died April 8, 1920, at Pittsburgh, Pa. A year prior to his death, he was voted the most useful citizen of Pennsylvania. Refer to any encyclopedia for further information concerning Dr. Brashear.* Prior to the death of Dr. Brashear, it was considered that no banquet was complete without having on its roster one of the three prominent J. B's of Pittsburgh: James Francis Burke, famed Pittsburgh lawyer, Judge Buffington of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and Uncle John Brashear, as he was affectionately known...
Speaking at a banquet last week, Edward of Wales urged upon steady-going Britons the slogan: "Adopt! Adapt! Improve...
...smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...
...diners will gather in more than 200 large centers where the banquet programs, sindlar in each case, will include speeches by prominent graduates...
...York. On the first Friday of March, each year, the Charles Townsend Copeland Association attends a reading by the man in whose honor the association was founded. The reading which was to have taken place in the Nicholas Biddle Memorial Room last night, would have been followed by a banquet this evening...