Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campaign manager, new Senator from Massachusetts, made his first important public speech since taking office at a dinner in Boston, declaring that the election of 1924 was the greatest "thinking election" since 1896. Through cold and winter weather, Chauncey M. Depew, nearly 91, went to the Pilgrim's banquet in Manhattan, spoke, saying: "What's the matter with Congress? Well, you have to be in Congress to understandd," was reflected President of the society with Elihu Root, John W. Davis, in his corps of officers...
Brilliantly, beneath the flamboyant ceiling-piece of the banquet hall, on the terrace under the tremoloing stars, the company conversed. They spoke of man's relationship to the Absolute, of the art of Correggio, contraception, the difference between amour and amore, hypocrisy (it gangrenes gallantry), religion, cats. Little by little, they split off into pairs, these beautiful women, these men of genius. Irene became engaged to Hovenden despite his lack of dental fricatives; Calamy gave himself to Miss Thriplow and made her regret it; Mrs. Aldwinkle, rebuffed by Chelifer, went off to Monte Carlo...
Harvard was named as one of the four progressive universities in the United States by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, speaking at a banquet of the New York Harvard Club Friday night. The other three were Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Chicago. These four universities," he said, "are contributing vastly to the progress of the country." He made no mention of Yale or Princeton...
...banquet given in his honor at Córdoba, King Alfonso XIII, referred to the defamation campaign which Señor Vicente Blasco Ibanez has been waging against...
...dinner itself will be an informal affair. At the reception to be held afterwards in Agassiz Theatre the former students of English 47, the private audience, and Professor Baker's workers will be in attendance. The speeches are all scheduled for after the banquet...