Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Palais de la Méditerranée built at Nice by Frank Jay Gould of Paris and New York, dedicated to Opera, Art and Baccarat. Because the restaurant of the Palais is one of the best in Europe it was chosen as the scene of a gala banquet to M. Doumergue (no mean gourmet) tendered by the City of Nice and the Prefecture Council of Alpes-Maritimes...
Seldom have so many famed flyers gathered together as in a banquet room of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt one night last week. There were bronzed "Lon" Yancey, meek-looking Clarence Chamberlin, debonair Col. Fitzmaurice and his rescuer, sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying...
...mean cotton farming, I mean real farming. As one of our most successful farmers in Casa Grande said at a Chamber of Commerce banquet, "A really successful farmer is one who raises everything he possibly can that he needs for his own family. Of course it meant work but he never knew a successful man yet who didn't work...
...likely that the group here will decide to hold two or three meetings each year. On of these will be the annual Sigma Xi lecture, open to the public, another will be the annual initiation and banquet, at which newly elected members are welcomed into the Society...
Professor Shapley was first notified of the honor yesterday afternoon at his office in the Harvard observatory. The formal presentation of the medal will take pace at a banquet to be given in New York next fall...