Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention, not to say interest. On the morning of the day on which the bill was passed, seven Republican Senators took breakfast at the White House. They were Keyes, McKinley, Phipps, Sterling, Cameron, Dale, Harreld. Presumably the President argued with them to support his veto. All of them had voted for the bill originally except Harreld, who had been absent. At two in the afternoon the bill came before the Senate...
...yesterday, when newspapers were unfolded at Cambridge breakfast tables, the skeleton burst from its closet with a hideous crash. The cognoscenti were competed to realize that the original of the poem was calmly claimed by a village in far away England St. Mary Cray, in Kept, which the poet carelessly visited without making his purpose clear...
...best I have been able to do in the few weeks we have been in office. I think we can confidently hope for the support of the majority of the House in carrying these proposals into law. They go far to realize the cherished radical idea of a free breakfast table. They give benefit to every man, woman and child in the country...
...budget abolishes, from Aug. 1, the 33⅓% duty levied by Chancellor McKenna during the War upon foreign automobiles, films, motorcycles, clocks and musical instruments. The so-called breakfast taxes on sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, chicory are cut by one-half to one-third. The tariff on dried fruits will be dropped on Aug. 1. The inhabited house duty is to be repealed. Amusement taxes are abolished for the cheaper seats in theatres, etc., and reduced for the more expensive seats. The corporation profits tax is to be abolished...
...from the Indian Ocean and the African Coast, where he played golf on some remote courses. One of his yarns concerns a country club at Nairobi. Among the trophies on the walls is a stuffed head of a zebra. It seems that a foursome, starting out after an early breakfast, encountered a lion on the third green, where it had just made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head of the zebra, upon which the lion had been feasting, was saved and mounted as a souvenir. Ralph...