Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Matthew Arnold. The after-dinner speeches were many in number, and one distinguished gentleman after another acknowledged how much good he had derived from the Union in his younger days. We quote from the speech of the Lord Chancellor in proposing the "prosperity of the Society" as a toast: "He did not propose to enter now into the question which had divided the minds of the venerable founders of that Society, whether eloquence had been productive of more good or of more evil; but, at all events, in all nations that breathed the atmosphere of freedom eloquence had been...
...Gaff then took the floor in response to the toast of '76, and with some prompting did the proper thing...