Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many years later, the hour for morning prayers was seven o'clock. In 1786 the prescribed hour was six a.m. At this time a recitation was held directly after chapel and before breakfast, which was served at half past seven...
...cools the body. In reference to nutrition, we may say that tea increases waste, since it promotes the transformation of food without supplying nutriment. The best time to drink tea is after a hearty meal. Coffee in its action is similar to tea, and is best drunk at breakfast, as the system is then best fitted to bear it. Constipation is the cause of many ills for which other reasons are assigned. It has been thought by many that tobacco smoking occupied a prominent place in the production of dyspepsia, but a large number of facts do not seem...
Memorial, the library and Glacialis, to say nothing of the places of amusement in Boston, were the chief resorts during the vacation. Men were noticeably prompt at every meal but breakfast; Glacialis, where the skating was very good, was frequently visited, and the library had its eye-glassed devotees in goodly numbers. The Christmas dinner at the hall was an elaborate and exceedingly enjoyable affair. Witness the following menu...
...lively combat between two stalwart waiters in Memorial caused quite a commotion at breakfast yesterday; after the shower of plates with which they opened the dispute had ceased from lack of ammunition, they grappled, and for some minutes, there was a picturesque fist fight till they were separated. Both were promptly discharged...
...opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion and good temper to eat one's breakfast hurriedly, under the impression that the hour of chapel is upon us, and then when the clock says 8.40 have the hands set carefully back to 8.31. We would not be understood as taking offence at the slight put upon Father Time, but we would like...