Word: banquetting
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...often happens in final exams, the last minute cramming was wholly unnecessary. The question: identify five dishes and two wines on the now-famous menu of a royal banquet given in 1939 by King George VI for French President Albert Lebrun. The items: Consommé Quenelles, Filet de truite saumonée, Petits Pois à la française, Sauce maltaise, Corbeille, Château Yquem; Madeira Sercial. The minute he heard it, Captain McCutchen knew he was rich.* Inside the isolation booth he conferred with his father-advisor (for appearance sake only, it seemed), cracked his knuckles, and cracked...
...worse address than Central Park West; mothers run a secret service on eligible suitors as efficiently as any conducted in Junior League territory. Most amusing and effective are Wouk's accounts of big family occasions, e.g., the mammoth bar mitzvah* with its ostentatious but somehow touching banquet that finds Marjorie's brother making a grand entrance to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, flanked by a cauldron of flaming brandy for the grapefruit appetizers...
...Geneva. Rhee denounced the Poles and Czechs on the NNSC as "Communist spies." His newspapers launched a systematic propaganda barrage designed to convince his people that another attack on South Korea was imminent. At the same time, Rhee's national police made arrangements to levy food, drink and banquet quotas on South Korean shopkeepers, for the use of the students and unemployed whom Rhee can always rely on to do his rioting for him. Then President Rhee put out two ultimatums. The first was to the North Koreans: get out of the Kaesong enclave, the area south...
Judged from the scene as the board met, it might have been a good-fellowship meeting. In the recreation basement of Milwaukee's Pentecost Lutheran Church last week, seven men sat around a quadrangle of folding banquet tables beneath a large sign that read "Jesus Lives." Gaily colored paper plates dangled from the ceiling. In walked a smiling, stocky young man with crew-cut black hair, coatless and carrying a briefcase. One of the men rose and shook his hand...
...Great Western Livestock Show. In the last 15 years, P.D.'s students have won seven Armour Trophies, five Swift Trophies, nine Safeway Stores Trophies. Their activities, however, go far beyond taking prizes. Each year they have staged a rodeo, a community barbecue, and an annual parents-and-sons banquet for about 400 guests...