Word: banquetting
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Eventually fishermen, vacationers, carabinieri from the village of Albenga and the three crewmen brought in 44 small corpses and three of the women. On a long, banquet-sized table covered with a white cloth in the White Cross aid station, the 44 children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...
...looked after "the little things" long before the delegates arrived. Mayors without wives were paired up as roommates according to their habits (i.e., tipplers and late sleepers did not bunk with teetotalers and early risers). Banquet placecards were arranged so that French-speaking and English-speaking delegates did not sit next to one another. Arrangements were made for entertaining wives while delegates were at meetings. Jessica, who has been with the federation since it was founded in 1938, thinks the mayors are a "grand bunch"; she wanted everything to go smoothly...
...tain's treason trial to defend the Marshal-even though Pétain had not lifted a finger when the Nazis put Loustaneau-Lacau in a concentration camp. Another of the arrested plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable, let him go to the banquet. Immediately after dessert, he was arrested. "The Masons have got me," he muttered...
...convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through his life, while she, admittedly without a heart, breaks...
Temptation to break training flowed like champagne last Wednesday night at the Red Top victory banquet after the Yale Regatta; but the Varsity remained uncompromisingly aloof, as they have since they began following strict training rules last March...