Word: banqueters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after the N. N. B. A. convention adjourned, Major Wright went to the White Rock Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, but not to pray. There, in place of the traditional banquet, the delegates joined him for an old-fashioned ice cream social...
Visitors to New York City this summer may banquet on fine art until they bust. The Metropolitan Museum has lavished its space, taste and scholarship on "Life in America" as artists have seen it through 200 years (TIME, May 8). The new, glassy Museum of Modern Art holds a festal exhibition of "Art in Our Time" (TIME, May 22). At the World of Tomorrow, 1,214 examples of "American Art Today" show contemporary ferment among U. S. artists; not far away are hung 400 serene successes by Old and still Older Masters (TIME, June 26). To assemble all this took...
...should know that Mayor Houde, who seems in the past year to have become TIME-worthy, "wowed" Their Majesties. Antic: opening conversation at the banquet here by studying, as he sat between them, a list of conventions prepared for him which included the one that he must not open the conversation...
...convinced that Germany has the air supremacy in Europe, will hold it for some years to come. He expressed his opinions privately to friends, including Lord and Lady Astor, and some in the U. S. (like Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames of NACA), But there was never any banquet of the Cliveden Set, and Lindbergh does not think it likely that British foreign policy was shaped by one man's casual conversation...
Twenty Japanese officials and their Chinese puppets sat down to a gala banquet last week at the Japanese Consulate General at Nanking in honor of Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Tomesaburo Shimizu. The banquet began with a toast in wine. It ended when all the guests suddenly went under the table from a little poison slipped into the wine by "Chinese enemies...