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Word: banqueters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flowers in the streets. Airplanes showered Abdin Palace with rosettes in Egyptian and Iranian colors. Sudan racing camels and Arab stallions crowded the capital's streets. At a reception, each guest received a jewel-encrusted gold box of bonbons (value: $1,000). At night there was a huge banquet at which no liquor flowed (Moslems are dry). The Nile shimmered with reflections of colored fireworks. Later, at another reception for Egyptian royalty and nobles, Fawziya herself shimmered-in bracelets, necklaces and pendants which the Crown Prince had given her (estimated value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fevered Nuptials | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Testy, sour-pussed General Francisco J. Múgica, onetime Minister of Communications and Public Works, is an ardent Leftist and widely regarded as the man who will wear the Cardenas silks in the race. He offered to hold a banquet for his two leading rivals, conservative General Manuel Avila Camacho, who resigned as Minister of National Defense, and moderate General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, resigned commander of the Federal Military Zone. The feast would show the country that the three could be political rivals and still good friends. Unfortunately, his opponents did not feel the same way about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Early Start | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, spoke last night at the Student Union banquet held at Leverett House. His talk on "Civil Liberties" ended with a few remarks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PERRY SPEAKS | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

Speeches by Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy and Joseph P. Lash, Executive Secretary of the American Student Union will feature the Student Union Banquet to be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. DINNER TONIGHT | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...moment later, Vag and the school kids all tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until suddenly on his left he found a stairway leading down. So down he went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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