Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a letter from a teacher in Chicago, to which you have attached this caption: "Obvious Distinction," and answered in your usual admirable manner. It recalls to my mind a little incident of my girlhood, 50 years ago. A miss of 12 or 13, I was having breakfast in the house of a friend of my own age. During the course of the meal, the other girl sitting at her father's right hand, and probably pondering a Sunday-School lesson, asked quietly: "Papa, what is a concubine...
...manager, as every one knows. Last week he took the usual absolute precautions to prevent tourists from entering the 4,000-acre estate. Their Royal Highnesses arrived late, but turned out of their log cabin quarters at 7 a. m. on the first morning of their visit, went before breakfast to inspect the extensive and varied livestock herd, now featured by two ponderous and potent bulls and a superb stallion, the gift of King-Emperor George...
...strong editorials drew for it the quarterback position on an all-American newspaper team assembled by the journalistic department of the University of Illinois. It has also won the honor of having more tightlipped, tight-mouthed New Englanders scan it crossly, not over three-minute eggs, but after breakfast on the porch. Dutifully read by New England-bred Calvin Coolidge, it has more recently won the honor of being termed "the President's Bible...
...Canberra, the new Federal Capital of Australia (TIME, April 18), is connected with the nearest railway only by a 40-mile bus line, and lies some 300 miles from Melbourne, the plane put into service by Prime Minister Bruce seemed a "necessary luxury." It will enable him to finish breakfast at 8 a. m. in Melbourne and still reach his desk in Canberra in time for an only slightly late morning's work...
...Bratiano begins when his valet awakens him at 9 a.m., presenting a light, Parisian breakfast of coffee and rolls. Although punctual about this breakfast hour, M. Bratiano is, thereafter, the acme of exquisite and sophisticated ease-of nicely timed delay. "I try to put off until tomorrow," he has said, "the mistakes which people tell me I ought to make today...