Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward dusk, the Stimsons boarded a Pullman to cross the continent. ... At Chicago they paused to breakfast at the Blackstone Hotel with Silas Strawn...
...Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. This is a one-act play with a single character-an embittered wife up to her ears in woe. It is one of Mr. O'Neill's earlier works and has all of his early melancholy weight. The cast, Mary Blair, did very well...
...Chief went downstairs to breakfast alone. The rest of the family was late. Afterwards Mr. Justice Stone dropped in for a chat. A truck came up with two sacks of mail-presents for The Chief, which were not opened...
...engraved golden gridiron from the Gridiron (press) Club; the official picture of his Cabinet autographed by each member; a microphone on a stand built to his measure by the National Broadcasting Co. (Mr. Coolidge, surprised by this last minute gift, said he could use the stand to take his breakfast on); and his final monthly pay check from the U. S. Government ($6,250); contracts to write articles for the Cosmopolitan and American magazines, and the Ladies Home Journal...
Monday morning he will arise in his S Street home as usual, put on his cutaway, have breakfast, scan his speech once more. Fidgety, he may peek out the window to see who is coming up the street. Finally, up will drive Senator Moses and Representative Tilson, the Congressional Committee, in a hired car. At 10:30 Mr. Hoover will put on his silk hat and drive off with them down Connecticut Avenue. Thereafter the schedule will be as follows...