Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph. . . . The power of words, suitable and just words, is very great. True words age slowly...
...address by President Conant on "Education for Professional Leadership" will be a feature of the annual banquet of the Progressive Education Association during its three day national conference in Chicago on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February...
...amazement to find Governor Smith enthroned in the camp of the enemy, warring like one of the Janizaries of old against his own people. . . . The Brown Derby has been discarded for the high hat. . . . Yes, Governor Smith, it was as difficult to conceive you at that Liberty League banquet as it would be to imagine George Washington waving a cheery good-by to the ragged and bleeding band at Valley Forge while he rode forth to dine in sumptuous luxury with smug and sanctimonious Tories in nearby Philadelphia. . . . You approved NRA, you approved farm relief, you urged Federal spending...
...Midwesterner also entirely available for the Republican nomination. Still pursuing an unspectacular program, Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News was scurrying around through the midlands rallying small groups to his support. Concentrating last week on Ohio, he joyfully told diners at the 33rd annual McKinley Day banquet of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland that a "cataclysmic division" was rending the Democracy which "will be fatal to the Democratic success in November...
...came to the throne at 59 with many long-cultivated acquaintances among British statesmen, Ed ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger - a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address...