Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar warmth. The occasion marked the termination of League control over Hungarian state finance. Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation. Typesetters, printers, binders, rushed these heartfelt phrases into a vellum-bound volume. It was dedicated and presented to Jeremiah Smith, Esq. After a sumptuous banquet in his honor he quitted Hungary last week...
They dined in jubilant cohorts, went to the theatre, to the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, to a banquet in Manhattan where they presented a testimonial scroll to North Pole Flyers Byrd and Bennet, saw French Legion of Honor crosses (Chevalier) pinned on the chests of their President, King Woodbridge, and their past President, Lou E. Holland. They changed their name from "Associated Advertising Clubs of the World" to "International Advertising Association," re-elected King Woodbridge president, elected Francis H. Sisson (vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Co.) treasurer, Rowe Stewart (business manager of the Philadelphia Record) secretary. They raised the dues...
...incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized objets...
...middle age who, in 1295 A. D., returned to their native Venice after an absence of 26 years, so changed that they had to beat their way into their own house past forgetful relatives. They drove doubt from their listeners' minds by many changes of rich raiment during a banquet they straightway held, and by slitting seams of the rags they had arrived in and pouring forth heaps of jade, diamonds, rubies and other stones of the Far East. Even then they were not fully believed, and from the numbers of men and the distances they described, their audiences became...
Tomorrow's session will be devoted to a series of business meetings ending with a banquet at the Drake Hotel. The speakers will be John S. Miller '11, president of the Harvard Club of Chicago; William Thomas '73, C. C. Little '10, president of the University of Michigan; and President Lowell...