Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager, a Greek, with the law. He answered that if necessary he would close his theatre on Sept. 1. At amusement parks in several towns, when Negro couples invaded dance floors, white dancers promptly marched off. At a small hotel in Pittsburgh a Negro minister tried to arrange a banquet for 40 persons but the management was "booked up for two months...
Attilio is a heavy, ruddy, boisterous, rich-voiced Italian with a grey brush mustache, tousled hair and oyster-shaped ears. His relations with people are whimsical and kindly. He rises at 6 o'clock, does the marketing, eats but once a day, at the great noon banquet. He has taught and housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller...
Firstly, on the night of May 21, when all Saxo-Borussians should have been listening to the nationwide broadcast of Adolf Hitler's speech to the German Reichstag, they gave a champagne initiation banquet. Secondly, while the Realmleader was still uttering his two-hour discourse, they left their Korps house, proceeded with levity through the streets of Heidelberg and noisily entered a restaurant full of devout listeners to the broadcast, one Saxo-Borussian pretending to use a champagne bottle as a trumpet. Thirdly, the Saxo-Borussians, amid much loud discussion, made a distinction between the correct way of eating...
...geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira Ariyoshi, newly elevated to the dignity of Japanese Ambassador to the Chinese Government...
...unveiling Baron Gabor de Bessenyey, scholar, raconteur, friend of the artist, orated, comico-seriously: "This is the 20th-century Last Supper. As in another picture of the same subject a banquet scene of the cinquecento was portrayed, here we have a typical genre picture of the 20th Century. In the original it was the last supper for One Man: in this, alas, it is often the last supper of many...