Word: banquetting
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...when called upon to speak at a huge banquet in his honor at the old Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
...annex to the student union building rose, complete with bowling alleys, music and art rooms, banquet hall, barbershop, cafeteria, lounges, student-activities offices and hotel rooms for visitors. Near by, six new dormitories went up, along with eleven low-rent apartment houses for faculty members. A modernized stadium echoed with the yells of 60,000 Michigan State football fans, There were also new buildings for electrical engineering, agriculture, physics and mathematics, and general science...
...been known to wear a tie only half a dozen times in his life. On one occasion he wore a tie to a baseball writers' banquet in Boston simply to cross up the reporters; a friend had assured him that they had already written their stories and reported him tieless...
...took her years to work the story out," says the Literary Guild, which is serving The Feast as its April banquet. Why it took so long is hard to say, since there is nothing in the book that has not been done already-either much better by Thornton Wilder and Arnold Bennett or just as badly by Marguerite Steen, Taylor Caldwell and Daphne du Maurier...
Daniel G. Mulvihill, elected president for the ninth consecutive time, addressed members of his 900-man union who attended the installation and preliminary banquet...