Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with all its cultural failures, can boast of one proud accomplishment: it has greatly widened the audience for good music. Television may be doing the same thing for opera. The tried & true arias have long been popular favorites on such TV variety programs as Your Show of Shows and Toast of the Town. The NBC network pioneered in producing such TV-sized operas as Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Martinu's The Marriage. In Manhattan, independent station WPIX has been telecasting Opera Cameos for the past three years, complete with a sponsor (Progresso Brand Quality...
...President's: half a grapefruit and a cup of coffee; Mamie's: a cup of Sanka, a piece of toast...
...Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...
Next morning, like any seasoned Army wife, Mamie was up with the sparrows, took her usual sparrowlike breakfast (a cup of Sanka, a piece of toast) in bed. Because of a cold (she had been sniffling for a month, ventured outdoors for the first time since Christmas when she left New York for the inauguration), the First Lady relaxed upstairs all morning, read mail, conferred briefly over menus and household matters with Major-Domo Howell Crim, had a quiet chat with John and Barbara Eisenhower...
...Players, later became Paramount Pictures Corp., and Adolph Zukor became one of Hollywood's first tycoons. For the past 15 years, as chairman of the board, he has been content to spend most of his time in Paramount's Manhattan offices. But last week he was the toast of filmdom...