Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of it, Winant does more to re-establish the reputation of Franklin Roosevelt than all the fevered praise of the writers of their recollections of him, and to recall him as he seemed then-not the toast-drinker of Yalta, or the self-righteous social reformer, but the determined advocate of aid to a Great Britain that was fighting for its life...
Requiring the student to answer yes or no, the poll asked (1) are you willing to use no meat on Tuesdays; (2) no eggs on Thursdays; (3) is the student willing to forego bread, toast, or rolls one meal per day; (4) eat pie one fewer day each week; (5) give up wheat cereals one day in seven; and (6) take only what he will eat. The final question asks students whether they approve dining halls serving "food of the week," the victuals most plentiful at a certain time...
...House of Commons. Tory Churchill, who knew ability when he saw it, put him to work. As British Ambassador to Moscow, Cripps concluded the long-sought Anglo-Russian Pact. Cripps was so happy on this occasion that he broke his ten-year rule of teetotalism to drink a toast in champagne with Russian friends. As the Government's special emissary to India, he failed to work out the terms of independence (mostly because he was not given elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will. Churchill made him Leader of the House of Commons, later Minister...
Many of the paintings in Siqueiros' Bellas Artes exhibition have already been sold. When the show is dismantled and dispersed to private collectors, the toast of Mexico City will return to the rickety platform, high up under the vaulted ceiling of the Treasury Building, where he is painting a mural for the Government. His way of painting is as violent as his finished pictures; glaring angrily about him, he splashes paint all over his clothes, gums up his great shock of greying black hair, uses his thighs as a palette. His mural in the Treasury Building represents Siqueiros...
Have a hunch there may yet be material for my weekly toast, commenting to himself, when the young lady wondered if Harvard had ever won the pennant. Vag, you talk yourself into the damnedest things, he said, almost aloud, and then, most audibly, he was singing "with Crimson in triumph flashing" and feeling quite at home...