Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman also found time to accept a life membership in the Kansas City Chapter of the National Sojourners, chat with visiting Kiwanians, receive a photograph of himself attending the Washington banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and bandy civilities with such characters as Mississippi's Representative Rankin and Missouri's Senator Briggs, who had little to do with matters of state. Full of the Christmas spirit, Harry Truman still liked to see everybody...
...flower banquet of the lofty castle in spring...
...Mode. The ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
...they could boil a sheep's stomach bag (with the windpipe hanging over the side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...
When Ambassador Spruille Braden took his seat at the banquet table, a wild ovation echoed through the building. During his speech the audience cheered, jumped up, waved handkerchiefs. Women cheer leaders pranced on tables. Probably no foreigner in Argentina had ever raised such a racket...