Word: banquetting
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...Harriman, representing President Roosevelt, sat in on the conferences with instructions that Roosevelt would be in agreement with "all decisions taken here by Mr. Churchill." Whether there were any decisions remains to be seen. But if there were differences of opinion they were covered over afterward in a stage banquet in the Kremlin's huge and somber Catherine Hall...
Veteran, bespectacled General Ho Kuo-kwang, commander of China's air defenses, breathed these thankful words last week at a banquet in Chungking. All day there had been mass meetings, speeches, athletic contests. Forty-eight boys & girls, the youngest only seven, had leaped bravely from a parachute tower. Winner of the contest was nine-year-old Sung Kuo-shua. The celebration was of Chinese Air Force Day-and the blossoming of new hope in China's old, war-weary land...
...banquet, a play, and dancing always highlight this festivity. In the winter time the Harvard Huns usually meet at least two or three times with the Radcliffe Frauleins and dance waltzes, polkas, folkdances, and even a few good foxtrots
...Russia Reynolds attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...
Gratitude. In New Albany, Ind., Kenneth A. Miller, unsuccessful candidate for nomination as mayor, invited 68 guests to a banquet. They were the people who voted...