Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast season was inaugurated when 16 tried and true Republicans trooped into the family dining-room behind President Coolidge at eight o'clock to eat cantaloupe, oatmeal, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, maple syrup, sausage, toast, and take their choice of milk, tea or coffee. The President talked with vim about business and weather conditions, G.O.P. prospects and the World's Series. Most of the guests were members of the Republican National Committee and Chairman William Morgan Butler thereof sat on the right hand of the President. But "Coolidge for 1928" talk was conspicuously suppressed...
...Dirty cheats, editors. ME, constant reader. ME, the public. I want to be thrilled, tickled with tragedy. They rob me; steal the stuff my emotions eat for breakfast. Do you know who that is-Nathan S. Leopold...
...contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
...wait to see." Author River, after this introduction, delves into the mind of his young friend to discover therein the peculiar changes that occur when dying ceases to be an abstract and impossible conjecture, and when it becomes instead a positive and immediate thing to be done, like eating breakfast. David Bloch develops a paradoxical sensitiveness to stimuli; the two girls he liked, his friends, even his own senses, his most trivial actions become vastly important by their relation to death. In precise and beautiful language, Author River, a young man whose first book this is, explores so thoroughly that...
Usually he avoids company. Except for large, liquid brown eyes, he is unattractive in appearance, small, dark, easily embarrassed, almost shrinking in person. When he avoided college he probably spared himself many miseries. Though he weighs only 125 pounds, his appetite is large . . . steak and lamb chops for breakfast. He sleeps long and soundly. Despite his father's prominence, he is so carefully unobtrusive that he might have reached his present age without attracting more than statistical notice, were it not for his precipitous enthusiasms and precocious successes...