Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before this I naturally asked for some breaded soft clams on toast. They are truly wonderful. If you are particularly hungry, however, start your dinner with hors d'oeuvre variés, which are really impressive. And if you decide to take soup after the clams, pick a chilled vichyssoise or a cold consomm...
...they usually did, the 22 Benedictine monks around the hollow square of tables ate their simple noon meal in silence. But then, since it was a special occasion, they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both...
...born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca," Strauss his "greatest Salome...
Dropping "The Great Gatsby" on the rug, Vag walked over to the mantlepiece, poured out an inch of Southern Comfort, and proposed a toast. "Here's to you, F. Scott Fitzvag," he murmured, downing the 100 proof liquid. Something about bananas and refrigerators was coming out of the radio, and seated again the chair, his ears turning a dull crimson, Vag began to see the happy scenes...
...down Holyoke Street and raced up the stairs to his room. "The Great Gatsby" was on the rug where he had left it, and there was an inch of amber left in the bottle on the mantlepiece. F. Scott Fitzvag held the bottle up to the light, proposed a toast, and slowly let the liquid run into the glass with the Harvard Seal on the side...