Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praise in the cinema industry are the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. At the Academy's Annual Banquet last week, where some 1,200 guests included practically every real and fake celebrity in the business, the Academy bestowed its most publicized prize-that for the best U. S. performance of the year by an actress-upon a young woman who a year and a half ago was unknown in the U. S. and had never appeared in the cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded...
Following the six committee meetings in the afternoon, a banquet will be held in the evening, at which Payson S. Wild, professor of Government, will speak on "Problems of the League of Nations...
...solid gold dinner service of the Royal Family, worth $16,000,000, will be used at the State Banquet. As always happens, at least one guest too exalted to be nabbed in the act will get away with a gold butter plate worth $500. Next evening the British Foreign Office is dinner host to the King & Queen-biggest night of Foreign Secretary & Mrs. Anthony Eden's lives, although Foreign Undersecretary Viscount Cranborne, a Cecil, and his Viscountess are often house guests of Their Majesties. Next day, May 15, the Envoys of 53 States depart and on this day train...
...dressed up along with 1,700 other citizens, President & Mrs. Roosevelt went out to dine in the grand banquet hall of the Mayflower Hotel. It was a testimonial dinner in honor of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. The President's personal tribute was an address in which he said: ''History . . . may even add his name to the distinguished list of major prophets. Even as the name of William Jennings Bryan sometimes suggests the arithmetic of 16 to 1, so perhaps the name of Jim Farley will suggest the more modern arithmetic of 46 to 2." Mr. Farley...
...intellectual approach of students to contemporary problems as opposed to the emotional attitude of pre-depression undergraduates that interested the dignitaries who spoke at the H-Y-P banquet in Adams House last evening...