Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that year those 34 men formed the Last Man's Club. They agreed to meet every year on July 21 (Bull Run Day), as long as any of them should be left alive. They put away a bottle of Burgundy from which the Last Man should drink a toast to his dead comrades. They decided that in their dining-hall there would be 34 chairs, even when most of those chairs should hold no occupant. And they appointed Mrs. Samuel Bloomer, widow of the Company's color sergeant to be custodian of their battle flag...
...breakfast time, peel a banana. Lay it on a plate of ample size and ladle over it thick orange marmalade. Eat with a spoon, munching at the same time hot, buttered toast. Sip coffee...
...home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists glory in the equalities already proved, hoping only to increase their scope. Meanwhile one may wish them success with that shrewd toast: "Here's to woman, once our superior and now our equal...
...Main Streets goes the jogging army?Arabs, Finns, great Danes, bandy-legged Italians, blackamoors, Kansans, Californians, Georgians, the Tarahumura Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep in haystacks, hotels, Hupmobiles. They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across the finish line within...
...Admirals Diek, Bachmann, Kresigk, Gerdes. All accompanied Prince Henry at Kiel last week and the Admirals motored out next day to be his house guests at Hem-melmark. There, on his retired estate, Prince Henry, still with chubby pink chops and twinkling, kindly eyes, drank a sailor's toast to "The Navy" with his Admirals in mellow Steinberger*, precious as fluid gold...