Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's sacrosanct Varsity Club, the Harvard first team sipped champagne-an old pre-game ritual. By tradition, the first toast is given by the captain of the last Harvard team to whip Yale (Fran Lee of the '41 team). But Lee failed to show up, and a substitute was pressed into service. It may have been a favorable omen. Next afternoon, on the first play of the game, a crimson-shirted Harvard halfback cut back through tackle and raced 80 yards to a touchdown...
Soon after, as the news sang around the world, Great-Grandmother Queen Mary arrived in white evening dress and ermine, and Philip broached a bottle of champagne to toast the newcomer. "A spanking fine baby," said Grandfather George...
...less than a decade, he was back again at Oxford, as Catholic chaplain of the university. He held famous weekly teas in the huge, hotel-like Old Palace, where he stuffed undergraduates with good talk and anchovy toast. He became a cherished regular among the witty debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...
Tidying & Tackling. At 5:50 a.m. the day they played Harvard last week, Army's footballers rolled out of bed. Like the other 2,377 cadets, they made their beds and tidied up. At 8, they attended classes, and then had a combined breakfast-lunch (honey, whole wheat toast, steak and milk...
...hours' sleep. (Back in 1940 his rising hour was 4:30, but, says Freeman, "the temptation always is to sneak up a few minutes earlier.") Every activity of his day is timed to the minute, often to the second. The time allotted for cooking breakfast (an egg, toast, Thermos coffee): two minutes, 40 seconds...