Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this, its fiftieth year-as an eating place for students in the University, Memorial Hall has undergone radical changes, and when it is formally opened for service on Tuesday morning at 7:30 o'clock, those who breakfast there will see many striking innovations...
Last week at his home in Kent, he became suddenly ill with asthma. An attack of heart disease followed. Oxygen was administered to him. On Sunday morning, he died resting in his chair after breakfast...
Next day U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon breakfasted with Premier MacDonald at No. 10 Downing Street. It was a matter of conjecture as to what passed between the breakfast eaters, but it was thought that Andrew Mellon had made valued suggestions...
...Manhattan, an Italian's back itched. He asked his wife to scratch it. She refused. He dragged her to the kitchen, slashed her jugular vein with a bread knife, sat eating breakfast at a table when policemen arrived...
Alexander P. Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain: "I was reported to have breakfasted in company with Douglas and Mary Fairbanks at the famed Armenonville restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. When we had finished, we three looked at each other aghast: No money! We explained to the head waiter, telling who we were. He was unimpressed, skeptical, obdurate. We needed 180 francs (at par, $34; now $9.50) for our breakfast bill. Finally, I dug a $20 note from among papers in my wallet...