Word: banqueted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these glories would have served to promote a banquet. But these Manhattan physicians and surgeons had) a more intimate reason. Dr. Welch was one of their number. He had graduated from their school in 1875, five years after finishing at Yale. In 1876 he went to Germany for further study in Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau and Berlin, interrupting his work for a six-year return...
...Gradually Mayor Herriot warmed toward the amiable Russian. He forgot that many of his bourgeois Lyonnaise constituents invested heavily in Russian bonds before the War and now regard all emissaries of the Soviets as agents of the Devil. In a word, M. Herriot invited M. Rakovsky to an official banquet at Lyons that night. They shook hands and M. Herriot strolled on, still sucking-warm whiffs from his Italian briar...
Suddenly the Mayor's eyes bulged. Choking on the smoke, he sneezed. He sneezed because he had just remembered that President Doumergue of France had come down to Lyons to open the fair (TIME, March 15), and would of course be the chief guest at the banquet. Aghast, M. Herriot remembered that diplomatic usage would demand the placing of Ambassador Rakovsky next to President Doumergue. What to do? Helas! Quel faux...
After much hurried consultation it became apparent that there was nothing to do. President Doumergue, who refused to Ambassador Rakovsky the usual courtesy of having the anthem of his country* played when he presented his credentials (TIME, Dec. 21), was fairly caught. At the banquet perhaps only M. Rakovsky was entirely at ease. Seated at the President's right, he beamed...
Members of the Rotary Club of Tokyo entertained 20 visiting U. S. Rotarians last week with a banquet at which the Japanese speakers completely abandoned the honeyed platitudes with which Rotarians are often entertained. Matosako Zumoto, Vice President of the World Press Congress, roundly declared...