Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connie Mack had risen at his usual hour of 8:30, drunk his usual cup of warm water. His appetite was up to par. For breakfast he had oatmeal, toast and coffee; for lunch, chicken creole, apple pie and iced tea; for the anniversary banquet later on he had the works. He had just been with the Athletics to Chicago, and he expected to go on making all trips with his club. He also expected to keep up with the movies and prize fighting. He did not expect to go to bed before...
...children return, experienced guerrilla fighters. They teach the humane old man to kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
Tomorrow night we are going to have a time. We are having a pre-commissioning banquet at the Harvard Club. There's going to be a big feed (on plates, too) and then the boys are going to put on a show. I tried to get Chick Henn, the Toastmaster, to let me render the poem I recited at graduation from good old Tizdale High. Mr. Henn thought that the program was long enough already. He said that if I had spoken to him sooner he would have been glad to use me. Remember, Ma, how I recited...
These circus methods, added to Hawley's impatience with slower-witted businessmen; made him into a Minneapolis legend. Stories about him were born, many of them apocryphal. Most apocryphal: Hawley supposedly invited bankers and businessmen to an elaborate banquet. After dining and wining them he stood up and supposedly said: "You guys have probably been wondering for hours why I invited you here. You hate my guts. I hate yours. Well, I'll tell you why I asked you-just to tell you all to go plumb to hell...
This encounter can hardly be compared with the brilliant spectacle of a few months later. Mem Hall was crowded to capacity that winter night, for King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was inspecting Harvard and was the center of attention at the gay banquet in his honor...