Word: banquetting
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Last week Dalhart's Last Man's Club held a banquet to celebrate lush crops, a record rainfall, the Dust Bowl's end. During the banquet the air got stuffy, and somebody turned on the long-unused air conditioner. Clouds of dust billowed into the banquet hall, drove the Last Men out into the rain...
...dinner over, Dictator Stalin led his bulging, elated guests from the banquet hall. Turning to them, he courteously observed: "The lavatory is on the left." Mr. Oumansky again translated correctly...
...When we get going," Calkins confided yesterday, "we may be able to drop the nobody listening' stuff. The Crimson Network has already approached us, and we might play at the Christmas banquet and Freshman Amateur Night...
President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...
...floruit was in one of the great age of Harvard. The names of his colleagues were trumpet blats calling to the banquet of literature and philosophy: James, Royce, and Palmer, Santayana, Baker, Briggs, Perry. Copeland, like Santayana, happily is still with us, as friends remember with effectionate esteem. But such galaxies of eminence are not to be picked up in a forenoon's shopping tour of the academic counters, and neither are they fostered by professional purges...