Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Human Host." After breakfast, which included the second cup of coffee the President has taken since his heart attack, one of his aides brought word of official gifts: from the White House staff, flowering plants and shrubs; from the Cabinet, quinces; from the 48 state organizations of the Republican Party, Norway spruces-all to be planted along the driveway of the President's farm at Gettysburg, Pa. "We . . . are joined with a great human host in wishing you new health, long happiness," read the birthday message from the Cabinet. The President got a great belt of laughter...
...grew up on a 280-acre farm in Todd County, Ky., 100 miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed now and then...
...State Chairman Elizabeth Snyder and others-in a parked car-drafted a telegram urging Adlai to run. Party leaders and Democratic clubs in every one of California's 58 counties were asked, by phone and wire, to add their signatures. An impressive array of leaders signed. Before breakfast, on Carmine De Sapio's second day in San Francisco, agitated National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser, who still likes Kefauver, bustled into De Sapio's suite at the Fairmount Hotel to break the bad news: Pat Brown and other top party leaders were holding a press conference down...
...goes to bed late and rises late. Usually he prepares his own breakfast-an unappetizing bowl of strained oatmeal and a glass of milk which, he hopes, are good for his ulcer-and eats in the white-walled living room decorated with two portraits of his tall, attractive wife and a Renoir landscape that Ed gave Sylvia this year for their 25th wedding anniversary. Then he lights the first of the day's many cigarettes and is ready for the phone calls that his secretaries, Carmine Santullo and Jean Bombard, have been holding at bay all morning. When...
...Park's problems are solved in a predictable way, but not before the contents of a madame's memory for sexual oddities has spilled all over the book. (Incidental intelligence, which will cause lifted eyebrows in Europe: after an illicit night, it is the gentleman who makes breakfast.) There is some good recorded speech, and readers of Confidential magazine can brush up their vocabularies. Sample: "Don't panic, love-bucket . . . Get me a small martin...