Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
Substantiating prevalent rumors that have been current since early in December, George Preston Marshal, president of the Boston Redskins, professional football team, announced at a banquet in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday that Eddie Casey, former head coach at Harvard will coach the Redskins next fall...
...friendly affiliation between Lowell House and its Yale "sister," Pierson College, was strengthened at a banquet in New Haven Wednesday evening, that originated as a birthday celebration for the college and developed into a demonstration of respect for its departing master, Alan Valentine, just appointed President of Rochester University. A social union was initiated between those two units last year when Pierson College played the gracious host to Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House...
...host of Harvard athletes, past and present, well over 200 strong cheered and applauded, Dick Harlow the new Crimson football coach at the first welcoming banquet for him in the Harvard Union last night...
Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...