Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner's Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story...
Alarmed by the relative lethargy of local hygiene authorities and fearing for the health of their myriad readers, the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily have unanimously decided that this afternoon and evening will be spent in a massive, dedicated campaign to conflscate all cranberries or cranberry sauces in the Boston area. Because this praiseworthy project will strike deeply at the paper's manpower, by supreme executive flat it has been declared that there will be no Crime tomorrow...
...case you're wondering," a voice said, "this morning's breakfast is an experimental meal...
...moment, Dilworth observed, he was busy piling potato peelings on a scale and marking down notations now and then. Glancing again at his tray, Dilworth suddenly had no feeling for breakfast and as he shoved the tray into the automatic dispenser he noticed a sign which read...
...this morning's unscheduled breakfast, there will be no evening meal. Instead, the regular Friday afternoon tea will be substituted this week only, necessitating the elimination of fish as a second choice for Friday dinner, and the further change...