Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major trend is back to fur collars on coats and suits, long out of style. A miss who is so minded can even breakfast in a fur-trimmed housecoat, go out for cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail...
...line, this very word, which I am writing represents money, I am lost in a respectful astonishment...I am paid sixpence per line. With [these last 67 words] I can buy a loaf, a piece of butter, a jug of milk, a modicum of tea-actually enough to make breakfast for the family." Such digressions helped to conceal the sweat and effort that Thackeray put into his work. "I can see him pointing now with his finger," wrote his daughter Anny, "to two or three little words. Sometimes he would show us a few lines & say, there that has been...
There being no press in the south Atlantic and no readers in Cambridge, the Crime will abandon publication until January 6, 1958, at which time Cambridge's only breakfast table daily will again return to action...
...special place in hell," he said impatiently, "for mining men who don't work with the deposits the good Lord has given them." Last week, a few minutes after joking with his son Harry, his doctor and his private secretary, Sir Ernest slumped over at the breakfast table with a heart attack. At 77, the "king of diamonds" was dead...
...loneliness and communicating this joy to loved ones: Rufus sees a Charlie Chaplin movie with his father and they walk quietly home looking "across the darkness at the lights of North Knoxville"; Jay, roused late at night to come to his sick father's bedside, makes his wife's breakfast in the 3:00 a.m. quiet of the kitchen to thank her because she had troubled to rise and make him something warm for the long night journey...