Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skilled parliamentary debater; Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith; and the co-leader of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg. They took a second look at the bill now under consideration on the Senate floor. As Taft had said, it was no milk-toast affair...
Said one of the bandit chiefs, in reply to an official toast in tea: the rebels had taken to the woods because local authorities were highhanded. Now that the authorities have undergone a change of heart, the rebels have changed too. Henceforth, they will attack "imperialists," not the local citizens...
...Toasted in Absence. At 9 o'clock the Foreign Ministers, each with ten members of his staff, met again as guests of Generalissimo Stalin. They fed sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay...
Josephine Baker, expatriate American whose bouncy scorchdancing made her the rich brown toast of Paris musicomedy for years, got ready for her third marriage. Husband No. I had been a Negro tap dancer, No. 2 a wealthy French manufacturer. No. 3-to-be: Jo Bouillon, top-ranking white French jazz bandsman...
...Minute to 9. Breakfast is at 8:30. The Pope likes an Italian-style breakfast of coffee with milk and toast. Since the war, he has stopped eating butter. After breakfast, he sits on in his small private dining room, running rapidly through the morning papers. When the gold Swiss watch tells him it is 8:50, he rises from the table and goes to his private study. He makes a point of ringing the bell on his desk announcing that audiences are beginning, at exactly one minute to 9. Punctually on the hour, the first Cardinal, after genuflecting...