Word: banqueting
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...been beyond Brooklyn or Vegas"; they do not read newspapers or go to college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same as the Senate does or General Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival...
...victory celebration continued on Saturday night when the team honored McCurdy in a drier manner--with a banquet. The men's and women's squads, team alumni and friends gathered in the Albert H. Gordon track facility for dinner and speeches in honor of Harvard's track legend...
...that he would wed the Princess, Lonsdale was gallantly U in his reply: "I think it would be rather rude if I said there was no possibility." Mum was not the word, however, for Queen Elizabeth's press secretary, Michael Shea, whose normally tight lips loosened at a banquet. According to a journalist who was present, he revealed that the family nickname for the Queen when she was bored or displeased was "Miss Piggyface." His indiscretion was so unwisely non-U that Shea might soon be persona non grata. It remained for the new Princess of Wales...
...played, and the next year it was like 15-1," recalled former team Captain Betty Ippolito, who made the trip down from Maine for the weekend. "Last year, when we finally best them, 5-3, it was the biggest upset of the tournament. We were the toast of the banquet that night...
...five guys who congregate late each night at the Fells-Point Diner, content to display them in all their modest, wisecracking, friend-loving glory. An evening at Diner is like a night at the diner. The air is heavy with cigarette smoke and camaraderie, and the menu offers a banquet of fast food and funny talk: French fries and gravy, with a side order of sugar and Coke-and hold the maturity...