Word: banqueteer
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...attractive wife Cecilia reached Washington with only a few hours to spare before a presidential dinner in their honor. They were to spend the night in the White House, then move across Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House and a round of wreath-laying, receptions and a return banquet for Ike. Next stop: New York, where President Remon, a superheated baseball fan, hopes to look in on the World Series...
...anthologies to comic books (about 37,000 new volumes a year, plus 162,540 single copies of newspapers). Among the treasures: eight copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays; the original articles placed before King John at Runnymede in 1215; the menu for the coronation banquet of Henry IV (1399); the manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, inscribed as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day." There is also a fine collection of early Bibles, including the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus, for which the museum paid Soviet...
That night, at the annual banquet, the A.B.A. presented its gold medal for jurisprudence to ex-President Holman-for his Bricker Amendment leadership. Then outgoing President Robert G. Storey, 59, of Dallas handed over his gavel to incoming President William J. Jameson, 55, a Billings, Mont, lawyer, and the diamond jubilee of the A.B.A. was over...
...admitted a spokesman at Hôtel Matignon, France's 10 Downing Street, "perhaps it does look a little strange, but really it was just a coincidence." Coincidence or not, the prisoners had their bags all packed before the word came, and the party threw a champagne banquet for them that night...
...California American Veterans Committee, an organization which, he charged, was laced with Communists; 2) been a member of the Portland, Ore. Urban League, and sponsor of an "intercultural program" of Negroes and whites while assistant superintendent of schools in Portland; 3) introduced in 1953 a banquet speaker who in 1945 had allegedly sponsored a dinner for Paul Robeson. Rogge claimed to represent hundreds of "taxpayers, school patrons and citizens," but refused te say who they were. Though the slur upon the non-Communist Urban League was obviously absurd, the board thought Rogge's charges required investigation, hired a firm...