Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aerial news is now the breakfast stimulant of a nation. With four men blazing a path across the Western ocean and two triangular parties fighting for fame and vaudeville fortune in a race, no less, over the wearied airways of the Atlantic, the future of the featurists seems assured...
...ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however survivors were rushing frantically about screaming "War Gas!" fleeing perhaps away from and perhaps toward the Invisible Enemy...
Vigilant citizens were alarmed last week. At first, they could not believe their eyes. And yet, there it was in print, in black & white, squarely before them on their own breakfast table, next to the cream pitcher. "Surely," cried one citizen, "Coolidge will act promptly. This situation cannot go on. Great Scot, this is the beginning of a PANIC. We'll all be bankrupt. Why, I always thought the house of Morgan was founded on rock...
...usual a heavy rain fell at breakfast time and cleared off at lunch. In long sheds filled with betting machines men and women stood in line to put their money on the mud-horses-Distraction, Bonivan, Bobashela, Toro. Some liked outsiders-Petee Wrack at 20 to 1, Rumplestiltskin, Sun Beau. Some liked the English colt, Strolling Player. Many thought that Misstep was just as good as Reigh Count and maybe better. Finally when the 22 starters paraded to the barrier, and were sent off, some people yelled, some wept, and some turned pale. "Misstep!" they shouted. "Reigh Count...
Except for his after-breakfast books and his newspapers, Mr. Rockefeller reads but little...