Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Mr. Ripley's "Believe It or Not" contained an item which caused amazement to many a student of human anatomy. The item: "Marechal de Bas-sompierre poured 13 [pint] bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said...
...Japan, four aviators were in training for the long and arduous flight to the U. S. across the Pacific. "I consider myself already a dead man," was their oft-repeated toast. Last week one of the four, Yukichi Goto, went up as observer for another pilot. Their plane crashed and he was burned to death. Dauntless, his three comrades trained...
...there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor Walker drank his only champagne toast of the trip...
Mayors. Before a banquet audience of 559 Alsace-Lorraine mayors, M. Poincaré rose up to speak, in Strasbourg. He who can be inflexible and glacial was now charming, and soon forensically vivid. Raising his glass in a preliminary toast, he cried: "I drink to the Alsace that is passionately, invincibly French...
Detroit Edison Co. (electricity for light, toast, dishwashing) announced earnings of $47,379,778 (1926 figure was $44,854,735) and complained: "Taxes continue to be a grief...