Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barton Davis and two of his children, whom he warned to be quiet: the other two children and their mother were still asleep. He helped three-year-old Marquis get dressed, told ten-year-old Daphne to take care of him, kissed the two goodby, and left them making toast...
...mattress, lay the naked body of his wife, Lolita, in a welter of blood. Beside her was a broken hammer. In the bathtub lay the body of Deborah Ann, 7; in the kitchen were the bodies of Daphne and Marquis. In the oven were two burned pieces of toast. Only survivor of whatever had happened was Chloe, who, neat in a clean dress, her flaxen hair in pigtails, gazed at him with appraising eyes as he stumbled out of the house...
...began as plain Jessie Dermot, a Maine sea captain's daughter. She changed her name, and in 1890, when she was 19, made her stage debut. Ten years later she was the toast of Manhattan-in Ethel Barrymore's phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...
...veteran head of Harvard care takers and Yard Police will be the toast of several speeches by such dignitaries as ex-Governor Charles F. Hurley, Attorney-General Dever, Dean Hanford, and Dean Laudis...
...Richmond's conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast Argentina and the U. S. in brimming glasses of champagne. Cause of these happy doings: a preview that night at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of the largest show of Argentine art ever put on outside South America. Said Argentine Ambassador Felipe A. Espil: "A country's artistic creations are the best exponents of its psychology and temperament." Eighty-year-old Counselor Robert Walton Moore of the U. S. Department...