Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1929, I paid a very delightful visit to a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons in Constantinople. There was a banquet and facing me on the other side of my table was a medium-sized, modest man of cheerful, friendly and unassuming manner who did not use tobacco. We talked through an interpreter who sat at his side. I was very much interested to learn that this very modest gentleman with whom I was talking was General Kemal, the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while...
...Subscriber Wonders henceforth beware of the exceedingly modest, middle-sized man who sat across from him at a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons' banquet in Constantinople (now Istanbul). There is only one "General Kemal the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War" and he is today the Dictator of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal Pasha...
Barnstorming the East last winter, in well-publicized concord, were the presidents of the Northern and Southern Baptist branches (TIME, Jan. 25). In Rochester. N. Y. a banquet was planned for them. By unhappy chance the banquet chairman was Dr. James E. Rose. Negro moderator of the Rochester Baptist Association. Learning of this. Southern Baptist President William Joseph McGlothlin excused himself regretfully. He was there not only personally, he explained, but as the representative of several million Southern Baptists...
...trip to Europe in 1927, why, he asked, need he have looked elsewhere (i. e. to the Equitable bus people) for traveling expenses? Nevertheless, Inquisitor Seabury wanted an explanation for the Block aid. It was forthcoming when the quixotic publisher, who has often been seen at ringside and banquet table with the Mayor and whose Port Chester summer home is named "Friendship," took the stand...
...hundred and ten members of the Glee Club gathered last night for their annual banquet at the Phillips Brooks House...