Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps, by the "Mister," Guinness applied to the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art and somehow won a two-year scholarship. But could he afford to take it? His education fund allowed him 25 shillings (then $6.25) a week. By eating one meal a day (usually baked beans on toast), he managed to survive, and even to see a regular Saturday matinee. At school he worked hard; after hours, he tailed pedestrians all over London, mimicking their gait and gestures; and at the annual recital, the judges-Actor Gielgud among them-gave him a top prize...
...Kremlin had use for Bulganin's smooth good looks, benign good manners, and easy way with a glass. Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster. "A real gentleman;' cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi. "A master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension," said a Western ambassador. In a face softened by comfortable living, his courtly smile was matched...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...
...hundred miles northwest of overcrowded Rio de Janeiro, in airy hills 4.000 ft. high on the edge of Brazil's vast jungles, forty city planners sat at a dinner table spread with snowy linen, and one of them recited an impromptu toast to progress in building Brazil's new capital. A year before, when they landed at the site, they found just one adobe hut. There now, nearly complete, stands a six-story hotel. 500 houses, and famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night...
Things come to a head at a party. Falling down drunk, the husband tries to make up to Gioia by proposing a toast which he begins with a disastrous slip of the tongue: "To my wife Rosanna!" Gioia locks him out of their room. "Go sleep with the dead!" she rages. He takes a trip. Desperate to be loved, and loved for what she is, she gives herself to her husband's adopted son (Anthony Franciosa...