Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students and faculty of the Law School met for their annual Christmas banquet last night at Lincoln's Inn. The feature speaker of the evening was Charles E. Clark, former dean of the Yale Law School and now Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals, who gave an informal talk...
...Boston, Maine's Republican Governor, big Lewis O. Barrows, waved aside a turkey he was to have carved at a formal banquet, gobbled: "You wouldn't eat oysters in July. . . .* You wouldn't eat a turkey on November 23." Forthwith he whipped from his pocket a can of sardines, self-consciously ate them...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...
...third term, so he decided that he would have to get the people on his side. He knew that people loved to eat better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected like Hell...
Today, the might of Scandinavia has sadly withered. But last week powerful searchlights were turned on Stockholm's famed modernistic Town Hall and the massive Royal Palace as over 100,000 took their stand along the twinkling waterways and King Gustaf led his guests, after a State banquet, into the Royal Church. Solemnly the Archbishop of Sweden, Dr. Erling Eidem, prayed that the Scandinavian kings and President Kallio may receive "strength to wage the struggle against the forces of evil presently rampant in the world...