Banqueteering

[…] and so, to make a long story short, such faisting and banqueteering was never seen since or before.

Three seasons ago I was still keeping up the banqueteering habit—a habit which had its beginning in 1869 or ’70 and had been continued season by season, thereafter, over that long stretch of thirty-five or thirty-six years.

From All Speakers and Dinners and Diners— From Every Banqueteering Abomination— Good Lord, Deliver Us!