Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...banquet has been given at Rome to Mr. Walker, consul-general at Paris...
...banquet will be given to Mr. Walker, the United States consul-general at Paris, and delegate to the monetary conference, at Rome by the Society of Political Economy...
...York correspondent of the Advertiser writes of the recent Harvard banquet: "I should not like to state at what hour the festivities came to an end, but I should like to say, from a long experience at large dinners, that this was the pleasantest and most refined I ever attended...
Arthur Lucas of Albany, who had been selected to respond to the toast "Class of '84," at the Montreal banquet of the Dartmouth freshmen, was seized and abducted by a masked party of sophomores just before the class started. He says they were careful not to hurt him, and furnished money to pay his fare home from the place where they left him, but compelled him to promise not to divulge the names of his abductors. There is great indignation among the freshmen...
...elegant reception began last evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Junius Antoninus. Dancing will be kept up until next week. The banquet is being furnished by the caterer, Lucius. Among other things on the menu, which were engraved on gold, we notice "perfumes of Araby, fried in crumbs; Phrygian zephyrs, with June-bug wings; hum of Cicadas, with dissolved pearl sauce, beside many other rare and novel dishes. As we go to press the company are enjoying themselves immensely, three have been poisoned and the rest are all drunk...