Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highways, Queen's Counsels, Queen's Own Rifles, and all manner of "Royal" establishments. The Crown appears on mailboxes and military insignia, the Queen's portrait on ashtrays, saucers, and brooches, as well as on coins and paper money. No one smokes at a.banquet until a toast has been drunk to the Queen...
...then there were the parties. There was the night Isadora Duncan, plump and middleaged, yelled her favorite toast ("To Life and Love") and complained to Harold: "The others-they are so heavy." There was the night Louis Aragon and Malcolm Cowley started a living-room bonfire of books they didn't like, but full-bladdered e. e. cummings acted as a one-man fire department. There was the artists' ball at which Harold danced with a friend's wife, who was dressed in green powder and a black string...
...dogging all the old folk - a dotty lady novelist, a rich London brewer, a withered poet and a wardful of grannies in a charity hospital-is the intimate awareness of death. A name slips from an aging memory; an obituary read with morning toast turns out to be that of a friend with whom one was to have had tea. To make things worse, a plague of mysterious telephone calls begins. A man's voice delivers a chilling message: "Remember you must die." Police investigate but uncover nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers...
...That evening, back in Washington, at a stag dinner in the green-and-gold White House state dining room, the President of the U.S. moved the U.S.'s welcome of Sir Winston Churchill to a high point. Said President Eisenhower, as he raised a champagne goblet in a toast to Queen Elizabeth: "Here is a man who makes on all who meet him an impression that is unforgettable. Now, for me, I met him in this house-and this was something for a newly commissioned brigadier. In the same room that he is now occupying is where...
...deductions.") Five-thirty was the cocktail hour for the Dulleses, "Jerry" Greene and Dr. Kamin-one shot of Old Overholt rye with a splash of water for Dulles, for Mrs. Dulles a martini. In the evenings the Dulleses dined alone (typical menu: consommé, chipped beef on toast, cake), afterward played backgammon. Since 1932, Janet and Foster have kept a notebook record of their backgammon scores. Last week Janet Dulles fell even farther behind...