Word: buffetting
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...rumors to be ridiculous. However, the bomb explosions that nightly interrupted Vargas' sleep in Montevideo made the visiting President uneasy. On the third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted...
...field of common action upon which tutor and student can meet and develop that atmosphere of sociability so admittedly desirable in the House Plan. Teas given by the various Masters in their Lodgings have been of advantage only to that regrettably small number of students attending them. Informal buffet suppers for seniors during their examinations, as tried by one Master, come too late in the college career to furnish the missing link...
Wednesday, Class Day, begins with exercises in the morning in the Eliot-Kirkland-Winthrop triangle, followed by an out-of-doors buffet luncheon. In the afternoon students and the various reuning classes parade to the Stadium, where the Confetti Battle and other similar epic events take place. After that comes the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball games...
...Wiggs family, waiting patiently for Father Wiggs to return gold-laden from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy...
...Buffet supper at the Harvard Union...