Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Banquet (on gold plate) began, red-faced, protuberant-eyed Author Lewis found himself beside Princess Ingrid, blonde Royal granddaughter, thus had a definite edge of precedence over the three other Nobel Prizemen present: Medical Researcher Dr. Karl Landsteiner (Manhattan), Chemist Hans Fischer (Munich) and Physicist Sir Chandrase- Hara Venkata Raman of Calcutta (TIME, Nov. 24). Buxom, brunette Mrs. Lewis had at her elbow His Majesty's youngest brother Prince Eugen, 65. She remarked heartily afterward, "I have a date with him for Sunday...
Invitations to the State Banquet read "Home going at 9:30." Punctual to the minute, Gustaf V & family withdrew to their private apartments for His Majesty's nightly bridge game. Guests found their...
...airmail service, Vice-Chairman Graham Bethune Grosvenor of Aviation Corp. (holding company of American Airways), Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin of Bancamerica-Blair, and many a wife- repaired the night before the line's opening to Atlanta's smart Piedmont Driving Club for a banquet. Georgia's Governor Hardman and Atlanta's Mayor Ragsdale made speeches...
...facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe, and attended at least one expensive & bibulous banquet. But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated. When John and his brother Charles got religion they took it hard, in a day when godliness was milder than measles...
...collect German payments and distribute them to the debtor nations. This now amounts to only 20% of the business of the B. I. S.I) With the joy of a great man doing a great work that is fairly booming along. Gates W. McGarrah told guests at a bankers' banquet that: 1) The B. L S. may some day become the central depository for all the gold of all the world's central banks; 2) Already the B. I. S. is actively coordinating the business of the central banks; 3) It is moving toward the position of a central...