Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bronx House of Detention: A real paradise; luxurious bed and mattress; large cells with a cityscape of The Bronx. Breakfast served in each cell; hot showers available; communal corridor, where lunch is dispensed from rolling carts. Newspapers and notions readily available...
Pizened Sausages. Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell...
Nixon was brought up in a strict and remarkably devout Quaker home. Each morning at breakfast, he and his four brothers took turns reading Scripture aloud to the family. As a youth, he played the organ and taught Sunday school at the Friends' meeting house in East Whittier, Calif. On Wednesday nights there were prayer meetings, on Thursday choir practice. "Our little community church was the center of our lives," Nixon has recalled. For a time, his mother Hannah hoped that Dick might enter the Friends' ministry...
...Gary wrote the script and directed the film, with his actress wife Jean Seberg-they are now separated-in the lead. This was his first effort at moviemaking, and it was a terrible mistake. In Birds in Peru, he seems to be sketching out a private fantasy, like the breakfast-table bore who insists on recounting his dreams...
...author is also trying to square accounts with the network concerning another property: an ABC collaboration with Paramount Pictures on Holly Golightly, a TV pilot based on Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. He always hated the movie version ("a mawkish valentine to Audrey Hepburn") and predicts that a TV spinoff, starring Stefanie Powers (The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.) will be even more "jerky." The fact that highly seasoned producing and writing talent is at work on the show fails to moderate Capote's opinion. He insists that he will not stand for the TV version "if they...