Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife and I attended in Buffalo, and was one of the wisest as well as the most lovable educators and leaders of youth that that city has ever known. In his last years as principal his former students, usually well over a thousand of them, were accustomed to banquet annually on his birthday in the big ballroom of Buffalo's Hotel Statler, and either one or both of his sons, as well as his daughter Edith would come up from New York City on these occasions to assist in doing him honor...
Cigaret-Lighter. One of the first things Commissioner McNutt did on arriving in Manila last spring was to demote President Quezon down the toast list at Philippine banquets. Manuel Quezon's Philippines Herald promptly took to editorial baiting of High Commissioner McNutt. First indication that President Quezon's conversations with President Roosevelt, Secretaries Hull and Woodring (who, it was again rumored last week, would soon resign as Secretary of War to replace High Commissioner McNutt at Manila) had convinced him that it would be wiser to get along amiably with Commissioner McNutt took the form of a speech...
...were marched into a ramshackle building. Immediately the tension was broken, for we were introduced to General Semenov in person and informed that we were not under arrest but that a banquet was being prepared for us. The building was the village hotel which had been converted into temporary headquarters for the General and his staff. Later the General posed for me while I took the enclosed picture...
There followed an excellent banquet with a surprising variety of food. When the banquet was over, General Semenov announced that every man in the room was to prick his ear and mix a drop of blood with that of the Russian or American sitting beside him. He explained that this was a traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment...
...sympathy for the Bolshevik minority, is boycotted by his students, backbitten by his colleagues, betrayed by Disciple Vorobiev (Otto Zhakov). To express his feelings the professor merely quotes Darwin: "Omne nisi discipulos" ("Heaven deliver me from pupils!"). Accused of being a German spy, he sits down to his birthday banquet alone with his wife...