Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...During the dinner the Stevedores drank a toast to "His Majesty the King of England...
Last week, when Stanford faced California in the West's Big Game, Clark Shaughnessy's Indians were the toast of the Coast. Undefeated and untied in eight games, they had rolled up 162 points to their opponents' 65, had clinched the Conference championship, had one cleated foot in the Rose Bowl. Before a roaring crowd of 80,000, they completed their amazing jump from cellar to Rose Bowl, outplaying California (13-to-7), just as they had outplayed San Francisco, Oregon, Santa Clara, Washington State, Southern California, U. C. L. A., Washington, Oregon State. Amid the loudest...
...blues on the Eastern horse-show circuit. Last year he climaxed an undefeated season by taking the coveted jumping championship at Madison Square Garden. If he can defend his championship in this year's National, with wispy Elizabeth Hyland riding for young Gibbs, Little Squire will be the toast of the show ring...
...Corps humor is also traditional, and the items fit for print are oddly in the Punch tradition, generally told with an air of we-were-gathered-over-the-cigars-and-claret. Once the Corps adopts a joke or limerick, its form is rarely changed, hangs on through generations. Typical toast...
Strollers in Cannes spotted jaunty, whistling Maurice Chevalier cycling off to his greengrocer's, a market basket bouncing on the handle bars. Similarly straitened by gasoline famine, Cora Lapercerie, once the lissome toast of gaslit Montmartre, now circa 250 lb., rode over the cobbles in a small cart drawn by a straining Shetland pony...