Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends." In the grey stone embassy, light from the blazing chandeliers gleamed on serried ranks of vodka bottles. There were endless toasts -for the glorious Red Army and its beloved leader, Comrade Stalin; for generals, colonels, majors, captains and so on. One guest reported later: "After the toast for the captains the party lost dignity." Thorez chummily first-named the ambassador: "We are all friends, aren't we, Alex, and brothers...
...tourists were enchanted. Before she could say Liliuokalani, Clara was the barefoot toast of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and a great tourist attraction. But it took her ten years to catch on with the home-folks. Last week, as Hilo Hattie, Clara was Hawaii's No. 1 radio hit, and the talk of Polynesia...
...Orchestra marched through his Symphony in E Flat; three blocks away, Ballet Society danced The Four Temperaments-music by Hindemith. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, George Szell put his Cleveland Orchestra through Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. The critics, who usually find Hindemith dry as toast, found his Metamorphosis gay and charming. In Boston, the same night, the Boston Symphony was playing his Symphonia Serena...
...story: a brash, rising bandmaster (Dan Dailey), the toast of the corn belt, marries a small-town girl (Jeanne Grain) and, just as he snags his first Manhattan date, collides with the '29 depression. He is proud; his wife is sensible. He tries to keep up a front; she knows that there is no front to keep up. When they retreat to her parents' home, he won't even get up mornings-much less lend a hand in supporting the family. After several reels of this sort of thing, everyone working on the picture evidently said...
...indeed there will be time . . . Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of the toast...