Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal invitation has been extended to all Harvard students and faculty to attend the reception and banquet in honor of Lord Dudley Marley, Vice-Chairman of the British House of Lords, at the Hotel Somerset at six o'clock this evening...
...tempered, pathological. He seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Christina under different circumstances-she says she has had 17 lovers. When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter III rules recklessly, becomes increasingly suspicious of Catherine and of all others whom the old Empress favored. In a banquet scene deftly underscored with pity he forces Catherine to sit at the foot of the table, has her Order of St. Catherine taken from her and placed on the breast of his mistress. He tells her sadly of his plan to put her in a convent. Then Catherine realizes...
King Herod's birthday starts all the trouble in the Strauss version of Oscar Wilde's play.' It is at his birthday banquet that Salome suddenly revolts against his slimy glances, goes on to the terrace where John the Baptist (in the Strauss text Jokanaan) is chanting his denunciations from a cistern prison. To see the saint Salome beguiles a young Syrian officer to let him out. John talks about Christ. Salome does not even notice when the Syrian stabs himself. But jittery old Herod steps in the Syrian's blood and Salome must dance...
...agenda for the March meeting is similar to that which has been carried out in past years. The program is as follows: Thursday evening, Assembly with necessary expert Committees; Friday morning, Committee meetings; Friday noon, Banquet; Friday afternoon, Committee meetings; Friday night, Dance; Saturday morning, Council and Assembly meetings; Saturday afternoon, final Assembly and Critique...
...resign from the Federation if the Negroes were allowed to remain. The Negroes politely withdrew. But after sweating over the problem in an all-night session the Federation's executive committee decided to uphold its constitution, which bans racial discrimination. The Negro delegates attended the grand ball & banquet...