Word: banquetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...restaurants were always popular meeting places. At the Bow St. restaurant professors and students lined up along his banquet table to drink the first pre-cooled beer in Cambridge. Following Prohibition. Cronin was the first local bartender to get a license to sell beer...
...what went on in the privacy of the little château. The royal architects discouraged prying eyes by setting its nine rooms-two boudoirs, dining room, a few guest rooms-in a small garden surrounded by a high wall. Even the servants were kept out of sight. The banquet room was equipped with an ingenious table volante, which could be lowered into the cellar, raised up again laden with delicacies. Louis or La Pompadour needed only to scribble a note and punch a bell...
...port, they dispatched four helicopters, and within minutes they were hovering over the Grommet Reefer; one by one, the survivors were plucked off to the resounding applause of the onlookers and set ashore. By nightfall, the 37-hour ordeal was over, and the happy crew was giving a banquet for Captain Saukant, last man off the broken Reefer, and in many a Leghorn household that night, Italians feasted happily on American turkeys, which tasted a little of diesel oil and salt water...
Last week, at a banquet at Washington's Hotel Statler given for her 1,440 employees, the Old Lady celebrated her looth birthday. With a propriety befitting her age and standing, the paper's staff sat around her table in strict order of service seniority. Next to President
Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...