A Short History Of Toasts And Toasting
January, 1964
A Short History of Toasts and ToastingCheers! Prosit! Skoal! !Salud! Bottoms up! Here's how! Na Zdorovje! Okole Maluna! Down the hatch! A votre sante! Lang may your lum reek! Oogy Wawa! and Here's to it!Ranging at random from High German to colloquial Scotch on the rocks, such are some of the innumerable sentiments and exclamations drinking men have used to salute their fellow booze buffs in the ancient and well-nigh universal custom of toasting -- a gracious practice which the 18th Century wit...