In Europe, the organizer was the hostess and her principle was catenary.

He's making a right cod of himself.

Uncomfortable youths, unwillingly occupying dress suits and lacquered and be-furbelowed young ladies will deliver handmade speeches, embroidered with blue prints for success, and offering eulogies, oozing with sweet sentimentality to the teachers with whom they have battled for four years.

Oh Scheisse!!