Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color warm, the lighting kind, and everything moving in waltz time. But Vidor got plenty of help from the man who wrote lines such as the one that Aunt Symphorosa (Estelle Winwood) once squeaks in horror. "She's going to the Black Sea," she cries, "without any breakfast...
...heavy-set man (180 Ibs.), Tucker leads as dedicated a life as any tenor. On performance days, he rises at 10, has coffee, juice, perhaps cereal, for breakfast. Around 4 p.m., he has eggs, toast and coffee and then nothing until after the performance, when he eats a sandwich. "The day I sing, I'm a stranger in the house. Talking is hard on the voice, so I don't talk." His three sons know better than to talk to him very much on those days...
...Washington awakens each morning to a new day at the crossroads of history, the same familiar sight greets the sleepy eye. Across the presidential breakfast tray and over the coverlets and coffee cups of the most influential people in the world's most influential city looms the capital's most influential paper: the Washington Post and Times-Herald (circ. 381,687 daily, 412,121 Sunday...
...Post is not so complete a newspaper as the New York Times (which, with the Herald Tribune, also reaches President Eisenhower's bedside), or so good a paper as the Baltimore Sun, which also gets to Washington at breakfast time. Over the long haul, until last year, it has not been so successful as Washington's ad-fat evening Star (circ. 250,086), long favored by the home-grown Washingtonians, from the society-conscious cliff dwellers to the civil service folk, who do the Government's housekeeping...
...both the right place and the right time-in the pause before the daily scurry through the bureaucratic and political brambles. "Of all the American newspapers," Britain's Lord Northcliffe (London Daily Mail) once said, "I would prefer to own the Washington Post because it reaches the breakfast tables of the members of Congress...