Word: banqueteer
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...wedding reception for Alice Roosevelt Longworth in 1906, the caterer used the President's fame as a hunter as the theme for his table decorations. He dressed little bears in oudoor togs and placed them in various poses around the banquet tables. When the President said that even he as a bear expert could not name the breed, a guest said, "Well, let's call them Teddy bears." The following year the Steiff factory in Giengen, West Germany sold nearly 1,000,000 Teddy bears in America alone, and prosperity of the tiny hamlet where the factory...
...accomplish this without calling out the Army for help." Seated way back in the audience but standing out among the liberals like a cypress stump was Arkansas' Orval Faubus, who had flouted the courts and forced the federal call-out in Little Rock. Like a ghost at the banquet, he was a haunting reminder of the Democrats' major, explosive problem...
...banquet for Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite...
...deference to the view of Harry Truman that the Missouri Waltz is "as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned," the Democratic National Committee will omit the Waltz from the program of a fund-raising banquet that Truman is to attend in Washington this week...
Sidney Lovett, 68, chaplain of Yale University, is many things to many men. For some, he is the fun-loving chief figure in the Great Hoax of 1948, who appeared as the mustachioed guest speaker at a Yale charity banquet and had everyone convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach...