Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret banquet, a table decorated with bachelor's buttons (lychius diorca), love lies bleeding (amaranthus caudatus), and love in a mist (nigerra danascena), served by celibate servants, attended by 38 bachelors, provided a unique scene in the House of Commons restaurant. There were to have been 39, but one (Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson) "succumbed" the evening previous and became betrothed. " Shame kept him absent...
...Lord Mayor's banquet in London, at which Secretary Mellon of the United States Treasury was a guest, Premier Baldwin referred to the recent debt funding negotiations for the settlement of the British debt to the United States, and added...
...American Relief Administration left Russia. In Moscow, Kamenev, Tchicherin, Krassin and other Soviet officials gave an official farewell banquet to the last of the Relief workers in the house in which General Count von Mirbach, German Ambassador to Russia, was murdered in 1918. Champagne and punch flowed freely. Among the American oil men present was Archibald Roosevelt...
...comes back. His friends, who believe that, even if he has no advice for foreign lands, he may have some for his native country, have arranged a great banquet in his honor. It is to take place in Manhattan two days after the Senator returns. Many notables (not necessarily his partisans) will greet him there, among them Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Charles M. Schwab, Mayor Hylan of New York...
...clock this afternoon the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa baseball nine will meet the team of the Yale branch of the organization on the Freshman diamond on Soldiers Field. After the game the Yale players will be the guests of the home team at the annual banquet of the chapter at 7.30 o'clock in the Harvard Club. Phi Beta Kappa men from other chapters have been invited to attend the dinner and may obtain tickets from Professor W.G. Howard '07, the Graduate Secretary, at 91 Garden Street, Cambridge. The presiding officer at the banquet tonight will be Jeffries...