Word: feted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twentieth time the Charles Townsend Copeland Alumni Association will fete Professor Copeland at an annual banquet which will be held this evening at the Harvard Club of New York. Professor Copeland was enthusiastically greeted last night when he read to a large audience in the Nicholas Biddle Memorial Hall of the Harvard Club of New York...
...money destined for a Court fete was expended in toto to relieve the widespread misery caused by the recent disastrous floods (TIME, Jan. 11, INTERNATIONAL). The Queen's almost fanatically devoted subjects were roused from their usual respectful but undemonstrative attitude. Whenever Queen Wilhelmina rode out last week she was greeted by deep-throated yet melodious* cheers...
...weeks ago, the Government of Czecho-Slovakia wrote to the Vatican, requesting-a resumption of diplomatic relations, adding, however, that July 6 would still be celebrated as a national fete. Now the Vatican has refused. The national fete said the Vatican commuuique, "offends the Catholic faith represented by two-thirds of the population of the country."*The fire still burns...
Chicago en fete, led by its Mayor, Dever, one of the Illinois Senators, Deneen, and three railway Presidents, Rea of the Pennsylvania; Holden, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Markham of the Illinois Central, celebrated the opening of its new $60,000,000, 1,200,000 square feet, eight-story (potentially 21 story) Union Station-"one of the very largest in the world and certainly the world's most modern and most complete large station in all respects...
Near Durham, Bishop Welldon, Dean of Durham Cathedral, was roughly handled when he attended a miners' fete. Apparently, the miners resented his trying to give both sides to the dispute; for, the moment his presence was noticed, horny hands seized him and raucous voices yelled: "Throw him in the river." The 77-year-old begaitered and silk-hatted gentleman was rushed toward the river. Cooler heads, however, came to his rescue, after which the Bishop merely commented: "I lost my new hat and umbrella...