Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations Covenant and the Kellogg-Briand Pact of Paris, was skeptical about the new pact's length of service. Even some members of the Daladier Cabinet looked with suspicion on the new "friendship." Noteworthy it was that the guest list to the French Government's banquet for the visiting Nazi diplomats did not include the names of Jean Zay, Minister of National Education, and Georges Mandel, Minister of Colonies, both Jews. Minister of Marine Cesar Campinchi, denouncing the pact as a "smoke-screen," returned his invitation...
...ambassador. Last week Britain had a scarcely less effective good-wilier-as far as the U. S. was concerned-in idealistic, handsome Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary. He arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania just in time to change from tweeds to tails and go to the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf-Astoria. There he delivered a long, rambling, formless speech on Democracy and the Modern World which contained many a plug for Britain, many a warily delivered hint that the U. S. and Britain were pretty much in the same boat...
Last week the taste of Mozart's letters offered by Critic Turner was extended into a whole banquet by the publication for the first time in English of the complete Mozart family correspondence.** Gathering, editing and translating the 600-odd letters of the collection had cost Emily Anderson, a publicity-shy British music-lover and scholar, ten years of scholarly effort. Readers of the newly-published letters found Critic Turner's impressions confirmed, found further that Composer Wolfgang Amadeus and his shrewd, harried Father Leopold Mozart were penetrating and sometimes irreverent observers of the manners of their time...
...affair of today will be a noon banquet, Lampoon men expressed the hope that there would be no repetition of what happened at the Yale Record a short while ago. The Record had invited the Lampoon to a friendly meal but the Harvard comedians found that they were expected to ante $1.50 rental and were so annoyed about the way the thing was being handled that they appropriated considerable silverware...
Braced by 40 pitchers of beer, the band provided almost continual musical entertainment, while the menu for the banquet included such delicacies as "Petits Fours aux Booth, Healey, Glueck and Daughters...