Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Throughout the "A B C Countries"-where even the most potent U. S. news services are represented chiefly by native correspondents- banquets are considered major news. In a single day, last week, one such news service received five "banquet stories," not one of which contained an atom of what U. S. citizens consider news...
...last year's meeting in Philadelphia. This day, the first of the meeting, will be devoted to informal luncheons and business meetings for each graduate department of Harvard University. These gatherings are planned especially for the man who holds a degree from the University other than an A.B. A banquet for all schools and invited guests will take place Thursday evening, with speakers of national prominence...
...evening, the banquet by the Harvard Club of Cincinnati to the visiting Clubs will be given. The toastmaster will be the Honorable Nicholas Longworth '91. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Among the speakers will be President Lowell and the Honorable W. T. Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine...
...same day that a New York publisher was on trial before a Boston jury for selling a copy of "An American Tragedy" to a policeman, the nation's "bad boys" gathered for a Ford Hall Forum banquet to sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost...
...Wallace's reputation for speed, no comic myth, follows logically enough upon prolific production. Last year he had six successes on the London stage, and in New York The Sign of the Leopard. In the spring, when only four of his plays were running simultaneously, he gave a banquet at the Savoy for his theatrical employes, and his guests numbered 590. Not content with writing the plays and entertaining the players, he has latterly become his own producer and designer of scenes-all this being a development of the last three years. Readers of the morning papers are more...