Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Berryman Scott, patriarchal Princeton paleontologist, described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
...president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only one): to the President of the U. S. and his wife...
This year Scituate will be the scene of this annual outing. On Tuesday, June 17, alumni of the School will meet at the Cliff House for the annual banquet. Although speakers for this dinner have not yet been selected, it is customary to have prominent graduates as well as leaders in this branch of medicine to talk to the gathering. A golf tournament, as well as tennis and water sports have been scheduled for recreation...
Last week women throughout the land began to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their enfranchisement. Candles were lighted, cakes cut, roses distributed, old feminist banners, buttons and propaganda dug up for historic display. The National League of Women Voters held a great banquet in Manhattan at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary President of N. L. of W. V. and second only to the late great Susan Brownell Anthony as a feminist, flayed men voters with all her old vigor of presuffrage days...
...charge at the time of the Reunion, we would keep away many who would like to come. Some of the expenses which we will incur are the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report: the Field Day for the Class: the Field Day for the wives and children; bands and orchestras: Class banquet: secretarial expenses contingent upon organizing the Reunion, and many other expenditures to underwrite the various entertainments to be planned by the Reunion Committee...