Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoker was chosen this year to fete the team, instead of a banquet, such as was given by the club in 1929. Harvard alumni had planned to stage a magnificent celebration in 1931, but their predictions were upset by a 3-0 defeat...
Elder J. P. Morgan partners ate their dinners elsewhere, but the firm sent young S. Parker Gilbert, whilom Agent General for Reparations, to a banquet at Manhattan's tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria last week for Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
Cooper & Robins. Host at the banquet was genial Soviet-famed Engineer Col. Hugh L. Cooper as president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Guests paid $5.50 per plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia...
...movement to fete Captain John Dean '34, and Head Coach Edward L. Casey '19, in the first victory banquet since 1930, the year that former coach Arnold Horween '21 won the third consecutive victory over Yale, was set on foot immediately after the defeat of Yale, which brought to a close the 1933 Crimson football season. It is expected that final plans will be announced this noon when the entertainment committee meets at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...affair will be staged within the next two weeks and will probably be in the form of a private dinner, followed by a smoker, rather than a luxurious banquet as was the case in 1929. It is supposed that only the members of the Varsity football team, the coaches, and members of the committee will be present at the dinner, but all members of the Harvard Club will be welcomed at the smoker following. The Junior Varsity and Freshman teams may also be allowed to participate at the dinner. The chairman of the committee is Henderson Inches '08. Inches...