Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late last June the Club was awarded by the National Aeronautic Association a first prize of $500 as the winning collegiate flying club of the year 1930-31. The prize, awarded by the Loening Intercollegiate Flying Contest Committee, was formally presented on July 23 at a banquet in Washington. At this time, Robert Bell '33, and A. M. Brown '34, treasurer, represented the University organization, the dinner being attended by many noted flyers...
...complained of writer's cramp from prodigal autographing. There he was given a bottle of 1827 tokay. The official reception at Vienna was delayed three hours by his tardiness. He danced at Baroncrest, was given a statue of Minerva, complained: "I seem to live in hotel lobbies and banquet halls. I'd like to get out on my own, lose my way. One trouble with me is I've got a funny face and am easily recognized...
...time to painting ridiculous pictures which he considers masterpieces; his garrulous wife infuriates him to such a degree that, on the night he dies, he likens her manner of getting into bed to that of an elephant; Grope's landlady, when he moves to finer lodgings, gives a banquet for him and makes her shy, beer-drinking husband give a speech. The tartness of Author Mann's style, his true sense of invention save the book from being purely an imitation and make it salty reading almost...
After his installation Bishop Gorman banqueted with priests and assisting bishops. (In his diocese of some 10,000 souls are 33 churches, 14 priests, one parochial school, one Catholic hospital.) At the State Building next evening he was given a public banquet. Said he: "It is already becoming embarrassing to be pointed out ' as Reno's 'boy bishop,' Parents have always warned their children that they should be seen but not heard." He busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James...
...high school graduates,* the Central Press Association-aided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Education-undertook last month to select the nation's six brightest boys. Before being sent on a trip to Italy last week, the boys were received at a Manhattan banquet by Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. To see how smart they were, Senator Copeland began popping questions. "Who is Adolf Hitler?" the Senator asked Prizewinner David Englander of Brooklyn...