Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milk punch before breakfast .. . quasi-primitive bopping ... six inches of snow ... and Sunday "Thank-God-They're-Gone" parties constitute the three-day euphoria of the traditional Indian ritual, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...
...Best Time." At the breakfast with the Representatives, the Republicans discussed strategy for dealing with what seems likely to be the first major piece of legislation to be passed by the Democratic 86th Congress: a $575 million airport construction bill, providing for federal spending on such items as terminals and waiting rooms, as compared to the austere $200 million Administration program...
Holly Golightly, the charming corn-pone geisha who sheds everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion...
...White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave to the trammels of opium...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Holly Golightly gets stuck with a no-carat man every time...