Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast season was inaugurated when 16 tried and true Republicans trooped into the family dining-room behind President Coolidge at eight o'clock to eat cantaloupe, oatmeal, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, maple syrup, sausage, toast, and take their choice of milk, tea or coffee. The President talked with vim about business and weather conditions, G.O.P. prospects and the World's Series. Most of the guests were members of the Republican National Committee and Chairman William Morgan Butler thereof sat on the right hand of the President. But "Coolidge for 1928" talk was conspicuously suppressed...
...King's title gave Ireland nominal full sovereignty within the Commonwealth; for by that decision George V became as much King of Ireland as he is King of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. Today Irishmen in the Free States who are loyal to the treaty toast the King not as the English monarch but as the King of Ireland...
...fear brooded over Williamstown. The vigilantes crossed the lawn to Dr. Garfield's house and chatted over tea, toast, sandwiches, small cakes...
...wedding guests laughed to see such sport. Grande Anse reveled long and late, the victorious flare-up of the hostess furnishing backwoodsmen and Manhattanites alike with a merry toast...
...chairs. The three men who remained decided that this would be their last meeting, feeling, perhaps, that none of them might be left alive when July 21 should have arrived again. So they brought out the bottle of Burgundy and stood stiffly erect while Peter Hall gave the toast: "Men love their country now, but our dead comrades loved "it most." The Last Dinner of the Last Man's Club was history...