Word: banqueteer
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...patronage of the suburbanites usually drawn into the city for a day by the ads of the big department stores and theaters. New York florists complain that they are losing trade because a public without obituaries and sailing notices does not know when to send flowers. Hotel rentals of banquet halls to wedding parties have fallen sharply because there are no engagement announcements to alert them to prospects. The lack of job promotion news is making it hard for insurance agents to find prospects. And the scarcity of financial news has cut brokers' commissions by as much...
...Year's Eve party was going full blast in the banquet hall atop the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses. Communist bigwigs mingled with diplomats, military leaders and stars of the Soviet cultural elite. Everyone was in high spirits, including Soviet ex-President Kliment Voroshilov, 82, who broke into an impromptu jig when the band played a snappy Russian melody. Genial Host Nikita Khrushchev roared his hearty approval...
...another little lesson aimed at Delhi. At the farewell banquet for Tsedenbal, Premier Chou En-lai smoothly noted that Red China had now solved its border problems on the basis of "peaceful coexistence" with Burma, Nepal, Pakistan and Outer Mongolia, making the point that only two neighbors now remain with whom China has not made a border adjustment: India and the Soviet Union...
Next, Adenauer was the principal speaker at a farewell banquet for Strauss. "I do not say goodbye to you," der Alte told his friend, "but just the opposite. I hope that we will work together even more often in the future and will discuss together things of great importance for our people." Adenauer noted that the ex-Defense Minister had undergone many bitter experiences. Then der Alte concluded with what may well be his own credo, by saying: "But bitter hours are necessary for the formation...
...peculiar people" call their lead-is the living oracle of God to whom Lord reveals whatever is necessary for the conduct of the church." Last week in Salt Lake City, nearly 500 business and civic leaders, representing Judaism and a dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints has ever seen...