Word: banquetting
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...young U.S. Army technical adviser, "doesn't give them the drive, the personal ambition, the incentive that ours does-they have to talk to so many people before anything gets done." The Government is everywhere, even determining what mildly dirty jokes may be told at a banquet. "Walt Disney is more often than not in the Soviet doghouse since Mickey Mouse frequently deviates from the party line...
Even as Prime Minister King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
...obvious to all who attended, the Pre-commissioning Banquet was, in the vernacular, a howling success. Several promising dramatic artists were discovered in the audience (either under the influence of the famed Currie School or other influences of the moment), and many of the faculty members surprised all with their well-chosen but informal bits of advice...
...Shorty" Joyner's portrayal of Professor de Haas in three languages, influenced no doubt by the first course, which was served as we entered the banquet hall, was gesticulating and twinkling enough to be convincing; it appears as though we have one man at least who was kept awake during "Stawtees-tics" for a term...
...servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers. The royal servants continued to mistake the ship's Negro mess boys for slaves of the U.S. Navy. (Slave traders plying across the Red Sea have for centuries sold Negroes into slavery in Arabia...