Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book deals with a wedding breakfast in a removed alcove of the Cafe de Paris at Carezzio, on the Riviera. Gerald Cairns, a sophisticated playwright, who has just succeeded in obtaining a divorce from his first wife, has been married by the British Consul to an idealistic ingenue of an Irish girl named Helen, who has nursed him through a four years' illness. The bibulous Consul Cheyne, his wife Gabrialle, an unscrupulous French ex-harlot, Helen's Dutch friend, warm sensuous Jenny van Haaren who struggles--at intervals--against her infatuation for Gerald, and Hilary Bentinck, the worldly-wise though...
Despite the limitations of space and style selected by the author a well knit, compelling novel has been evolved. As a recorder of the current of emotion florving and ebbing in society at a wedding breakfast, it probably remains alone in the field...
...Chief justice dropped easily back into the health-guarding routine which he follows when in Washington-up at 7 o'clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor...
Every Englishman likes kippered herring for breakfast, and especially "Yarmouth Bloaters," which are quite superior "kippers." Therefore true Britons have a sentimental liking for the old East Anglican city of "Yarmouth on the Yare." Last week 2,600 Conservative Party Delegates bustled out to Yarmouth, assembled in the famed "Seaside Hippodrome," and became momentously the Conservative Party Conference. Solemn was the occasion, for a platform would soon be drafted on which the Party will appeal to the country in the forthcoming Parliamentary Election...
Beggars of Life. This story of Jim Tully's concerns hoboes. It opens with a murder. A lecherous farmer took Nancy (Louise Brooks) out of an orphanage. For two years he had "pawed over her with his hands." Finally at breakfast one day he attempted to rape her, but she pulled a shotgun from the wall, slew the farmer, protected her honor. She is assisted in her getaway by a casual young hobo (Richard Arlen) who, cinemaddicts are to believe, persevered in a platonic companionship. At a jungle (hobo hangout) her sex is discovered when the Arkansaw Snake (Robert...