Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington cocktail-bibbers set out for the four-story, grey stone Yugoslav embassy in delighted throngs one night last week to attend a party celebrating the sixth year of Tito's rule. It seemed certain to produce gossip. If Tito provided the sumptuous buffet usual at such affairs, the guests could not only eat well, but make ironic asides about the Yugoslav famine. If the table was bare, they could at least have the spartan pleasure of watching high U.S. officials-who had accepted in droves-struggling to be polite while hungry...
...initial stages of the party it dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...
Long-range plans for an "ideal" May 18-20 weekend will also appear on the questionnaire, asking for approval, objections, and comments. Activities now listed include a tea dance, buffet supper, and evening at the Brattle Theatre for Friday; a formal dinner at Moors and the class dance combined with the regular spring formal Saturday; and a picnic to Crane's Beach Sunday. Last year only 50 couples attended to separate senior class formal dance...
...celebrated with a buffet supper at the Business School, while the sons and daughters of the Class held a square dance in Carey Cage. Meanwhile, not to be daunted, the Class of '30 held a symposium, a lunch, indulged in afternoon sports, and ended up with a reunion banquet in the evening...
...Class of 35 held a banquet, and the Class of '40 had a buffet lunch, a class meeting, and a banquet, as it began its two-day reunion...