Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Caterer of Chicago's great Morrison Hotel summoned his servants last week: ''Five hundred banquet covers for the Continental Convention on Technocracy...
...assemblage Howard Scott the Technocrat glided and, despite objections, mounted its platform. A hotel detective came running to stop the clamor. Howard Scott the Technocrat left. Then, rapidly, General Westervelt was obliged to go to Washington on Government business. Clarence Darrow was "tickled to death" to avoid the Technocrat banquet. Eventually the only ones ready to eat were Howard Scott the Technocrat and his loyal men. But they would not, or could not, pay for 500 Hotel Morrison banquet covers. Nor was there anyone else whom the Chief Caterer could find willing or able...
...Between times the Press picked up what news it could of the strangely behaving U. S. Delegates. Best tidbit of last week was the Delegates' failure to realize that invitations to dine with the "Fishmongers' Company'' meant a chance to banquet with one of London's richest guilds off sumptuous gold plates. Nearly half the Delegates invited threw away their Fishmongers' invitations, unaware that the banquet was being given by special request of His Majesty's Government. The Press also twitted two breezy Southern Delegates, Texas ice & utilities Tycoon Ralph W. Morrison...
That evening the King & Queen gave Lord Derby a banquet at Buckingham Palace, the table dressed with his black & white racing silks...
...University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local newspapers loyally suppressed their best story in years...