Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman Hater. Another one that you should arrange to miss. The great actress, toast of Paris (French toast), comes to the U. S. About to marry a very rich young man, she is interrupted by an elder friend of that hopeful's distracted family. Elder friend becomes enamored for himself...
...Tarrytown, N. Y. The day before his 86th birthday, John Davison Rockefeller hastily gulped down a bowl of hot milk toast, went out to the first tee of his little 9-hole course, drove off. When he finished the round, he stated that his score was 48-an assertion smirkingly corroborated by his caddy. "The best 86-year-old golfer in the world," said his friends...
...toast to the Prince's health and prosperity was drunk and followed by Boer and British cheers, and the singing of God Save the Prince of Wales...
...Bower, Lord Mayor of London and His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster,* there are no better Roman Catholics in all Britain. Yet, mirabile dicta, both declined to attend, last week, a meeting of the Catenian? Association in London. The reason was quite simple?on the program, the toast to Pope Pius XI preceded the toast to King George...
...great social functions in Washington last week was the dinner given by the two Bryans to Vice-President Dawes. It must have been a jolly party, with Charles W. predicting a Democratic victory in 1928, with W. J. drinking a fundamentalist toast in grape juice, and with Dawes having to curb his genius in face of the greatest justification in his career for inventing a new "cuss" word...