Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workday is so individual and changeable that he has no routine in the usual sense. He rises between 6 and 7 a.m. in his house in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, begins the day's first round of telephone calls over a leisurely breakfast of tea, toast and fruit. For Simon, the telephone is a compulsive device: he has four unlisted telephones at home, three more in his blue-carpeted office at Fullerton...
...several hours, and left as suddenly as he had come. When Mrs. Worthington sat down at her instrument she could scarcely believe her ear. The music was heavenly beyond imagination; a simple major triad sounded like a choir of angles. Within a short time Mrs. Worthington had become the toast of the musical monde. She gave weekly recitals...
Frankly and publicly stating his country's need for continued aid, Park said in a toast that, despite his country's economic difficulties, "we can still assure you with pride that your support and assistance will be better rewarded in Korea than anywhere else...
ZORBA THE GREEK. Anthony Quinn presses strong red wine from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, with Oscar Winner Lila Kedrova as the pathetic old jade who is drinking her final toast to life...
...heroine of the title story is Melba Toast, "the skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of Lorelei Lee in Anita Loos's 1925 bestseller, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and, like Lorelei, has a mousy girl friend to come along on double dates...