Word: banquetting
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...years George Jessel has entertained in vaudeville, legit, radio, cinema, banquet halls, brothels. He has swung high & low, never quite ranking with the Cantors, Durantes, Wynns. One reason: he is more wisecracker than zany. Another may be: with his marital mishaps, he has had too much publicity in the wrong section of the papers. But for two things he is famed: as the Jazz Singer and as Momma Jessel's son Georgie...
...devoted to building up a desire for cooperation between the United States and Russia, leading Boston newspapers have recently shown the dangerous inclination to promote anti-Russian feeling; dangerous because it is insidiously developed in news stories and not straightforwardly in editorials. Last Sunday night a Patriot's Day banquet was held in Boston. The Governor of Massachusetts, a Right Reverend Monseigneur of the Catholic Church, a Harvard professor, and a chaplain from the Harvard Army Chaplain School gave speeches. The Chaplain's address, no more outstanding than the rest, was a stern outcry against slackening of civilian morale...
Burma's Judy. In Burma even more is being made of political appeals. Fortnight ago Burma's Puppet Premier Ba Maw visited Tokyo. He was entertained in an annex of Premier Tojo's official residence. He was taken to the Diet, given a banquet, interviewed. And then he was told by Premier Tojo that Japan had set up "the new independent State of Burma...
...dozen knives, forks and spoons, 200,000 dishes, 150,000 glasses and goblets, 1,000 18-carat gold-plated banquet plates (all just a headache to soldiers on K.P. duty who had been put to polishing them for the sale...
Winding up this season the swimmers will hold a banquet on Wednesday in the Harvard Club of Boston, at which the team's high scorer, will be awarded the Wyman Trophy...