Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls had fun going to dances, hearing Negro choirs, fighting a forest fire, chatting with a Georgia chain gang that dug a path for their busses through a landslide. Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke...
...motive for introducing murals and sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...
...late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), married but childless, had a lifelong professional interest in pregnant women. When he was two (1843) and again when he was 14 (1855), his father, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table), initiated campaigns to make doctors wash their hands before attending women in labor. And it was Judge Holmes who ruled from the Massachusetts bench in 1884 that "during the gestation period, the child is part of his mother's bowels," and therefore is not an individual capable of being injured in an accident...
...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...
...remember now that on three occasions I found a copy of the--lying on the stairs. It did not occur to me at the time that it was mine, although I borrowed it for the breakfast and returned it thereafter to the same spot, Later one of those days I saw the maid throw it down the incinerator...