Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While buxom farmer-waitresses piled his plate with boiled joints, boiled vegetables, boiled puddings, he plied a fork with his free hand, rising now and then to join the farmers in a toast...
Said he, "I propose the toast 'Farmers and Fox-hunting,' with certain words of President Theodore Roosevelt on my lips. President Roosevelt said: 'I stand for the Ten Commandments. They're just bully!' I stand for Farmers and Foxhunting. They're just bully...
...this is much too romantic for a realistic age. Better the gargoyled truth of Sherwood Anderson's sardonic laughter, laughter which he finally admits is--black. But if life is not an afternoon of tea and toast and silver spoons, neither is it a night of sin, sex, and sentiment, and there is no particularly cogent reason why anyone should waste it reading laboratory manuals with colored jackets...
Finally those who tottered to Les Halles (the public markets) for breakfast, drank a farewell toast in steaming peasant soup to M. Carpentier, "georgeous Orchid Man." He had announced his intention of sailing within the next few days to fulfill a cinema contract in California...
...courage to tell the truth about Alexandra? Since the readers of the News think, as they read, by pictures, a remarkable tableau rose in their minds: They saw the Dowager Queen in her last moments-a bejeweled crone lifting her glass for the last time in a toast, perhaps to the physicians who had tended her. . . . "Good old sport!" they murmured...