Word: banquetting
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...general rule the varsity football team's annual post season banquet is a private affair. No members of the press are invited, and no statements of what was said are given out. This year, if we may judge by the three inch front page headlines in the Boston Traveler, somebody talked...
Benny Jacobson will give a banquet for the members of the football team at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Circle Lounge...
...heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys to the nation as well, along with a little homily on the uses of democracy...
...hard sledding, because a nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
This announcement came as a result of the Band's concert before the Associated Industries of Massachusetts banquet in October. Influential members of the Association who were present were greatly impressed, and have since convinced NAM convention directors to spend the $3,000 which would be necessary to bring the Band to New York...