Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming years death would decimate their ranks, they founded the Last Man's Club. Each year they agreed to meet again on the anniversary of the battle. A bottle of wine was dedicated to the last man, who should open the precious bottle and drink a toast to his departed comrades...
they will lift the precious wine to drink a toast to their departed frends and a salute to their own Deaths...
...country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
There the Duke was entertained at luncheon, was made an honorary fishmonger. Responding to the royal toast he said: "My brother, the Prince of Wales, and I represent the fourth generation who have been members of the Fishmongers Company, and I earnestly hope that it will be my good fortune to see my daughter represent the fifth...
...parties, always late?sometimes so late that when the curtain rises most of the seats are vacant. The Philadelphians, however, are rarely late for their teas. If the concert is long, they rise and leave, bowing to their friends and murmuring goodbyes, and hurry away to scones and cinnamon toast and caroling kettles, leaving the music to make its swanlike end exclusively for the benefit of the ushers and those that have free seats, etc. Ah, if only Conductor Leopold Stokowski would treat these Friday excursionists as they treat him, lovers of music have said. If he would return their...