Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America he loses his commission, falls into the hands of pirates and is forced to walk the plank. Miraculously, he makes his way to shore, where he encounters a drug-ravaged hag who turns out to be the girl of his dreams-a former London prostitute named Joan Toast. Shaken by all this, Ebenezer innocently signs away the family property and sees the family manor Maiden, turned into a bordello. By the time he is captured by Indians, Ebenezer finally understands "the crime I stand indicted for, the crime of innocence." He abandons poetry and finishes out his life...
...President of the U.S. (a deep, off-camera voice, not resembling Ike's). "You have," said the President, "at one stroke done more to make the American position clear than anything that has been done in the last 50 years." Back on the moon, that was worth another toast with the Cossacks-this time in lemonade...
Duel of Angels. The last of Jean Giraudoux's plays (adapted by Christopher Fry) is an ironic toast of farewell: cold champagne served by a cold, elegant hand. As an errant lady who convinces a too-pure Lucrece that she has been raped, Vivien Leigh is at her best...
Duel of Angels. The last of Jean Giraudoux's plays (adapted by Christopher Fry) is an ironic toast of farewell; cold champagne served by a cold, elegant hand...
That evening, at a big Italian embassy reception, Khrushchev made it clear that he had abandoned all hope of capitalizing on Gronchi's vague visions of a more "flexible" Italian foreign policy. In a long, menacing toast, Khrushchev bluntly warned that Russia would not relax its hold over Communist East Germany ("The situation created by World War II cannot be changed without a war"); he was not interested in West German views ("We cannot accept conditions from men who were beaten at Stalingrad"), then launched into a series of unfavorable comparisons between Italy and Russia...