Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resplendent traveler to the court of Solomon. In varying forms the Bible, Koran and Talmud all tell the tale. According to I Kings 10, she came to Solomon with lavish gifts, considerable skepticism and many hard questions. When she saw his wisdom, his piety, his house, his banquet table, his servants and their apparel, she renounced her skepticism and "there was no more spirit in her." From that lack of spirit, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of Abyssinia's present monarch, crafty brown Haile Selassie. The Arabian version has it that the Queen of Sheba...
...will be able to take board and lodgings gratis at Lowell House when in Cambridge, and Lowell House members would have similar opportunities in New Haven. Pierson has in fact, already made advances toward an association with Lowell House. Professor William Y. Elliott of Harvard attended Pierson's first banquet recently, at which President Angell discussed the subject, "college loyalty." Professor Elliott presented Pierson with a gold cigarette box as the gift of Lowell...
Nominated as candidates for awards at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual banquet next week...
Helen Retires is a leftover from the onetime best-selling Helen of Troy, which made Writer Erskine's fame. The opera starts with Menelaos' funeral banquet and Helen as tart a widow as ever she was in the novel. Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes...
...program of this year's meeting closely follows that of former sessions. The schedule is as follows: Thursday evening, Assembly session; Friday morning, Committee meetings; Friday noon, banquet; Friday afternoon, Committee meetings; Friday night, dance; Saturday morning, Council and Assembly sessions; Saturday afternoon, final Assembly and critique...