Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grieger was finally released from jail, but got into trouble again. In a Warsaw cafe one day, he stopped to talk to a British visitor who was sitting at a table with three pretty Polish girls and a Communist functionary. When the Briton proposed a toast to "these nice girls here" and the King of England, the Communist shouted: "We won't drink to the - King. It will be to Stalin." Says ex-R.A.F.-man Grieger: "I don't know what happened, but I slugged him." Before he could be arrested, Grieger ran. At the border...
...Hewlett Johnson. The Archbishop of Canterbury has publicly shaken his head many times over the Red Dean's bland blurts in favor of Communism and all things Russian. In London last week, at the Lord Mayor's dinner for Anglican Bishops, the Archbishop responded to a toast "to the clergy at home and overseas...
...with the Harvard crew, a day which begins at 6:15 a.m. At this outrageous hour the 28 resident crewmen are expected to spring gaily out of their beds and wend their way to the dining hall, where a glass of orange juice and a piece of toast is expected to bring them all to the peak of physical preparedness. On or before seven o'clock all the oarsmen are in their shells and rowing down the Thames River in the general direction of New London. All in all, they row upwards of eight miles, and then return...
...Czechoslovakia, musical reconstruction was booming. Program features of the Slovak Philharmonic last week: Cantata on the Communist Party, Cantata on [Communist Premier Klemenf] Gottwald, Toast to Stalin...
Died. General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, 70, grandson and namesake of Italy's famed, red-shirted Liberator, onetime ardent antiFascist, author (A Toast to Rebellion); in Rome. A soldier in six wars, Garibaldi, at 23, led 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, later became Francisco Madero's chief of staff in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, organized an Italian Legion to fight for France in World War I. At first violently opposed to the Black Shirts, he eventually shifted his allegiance to Mussolini during the Ethiopian campaign but was put into jail by the Nazis during...