Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conferred at breakfast with Chairman Francis E. Warren ot che Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, and a group of Senators and Representatives; discussed the Mississippi flood situation. Senators present included William E. Borah of Idaho and Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana...
When the astute Washington commentator who is correspondent for the Independent criticizes Mr. Coolidge for his taciturnity and matutinal solemnity at political breakfasts he only evidences his own ignorance of human nature and breakfast, well versed though he may be in politics. Not even the most inimical of the Coolidge crities would be grudge him a before-breakfast complex. It is one thing to chat merrily along at luncheons and dinners-and it is another to be pollyannic at the first meal...
...stands complacently before the speaker. Who does not sympathize with the President in his unwillingness to devote precious minutes to political topics and thus deprive the White House cheif of justice? It is a hazardous guess but there is a possibility that the Garbo is comparatively wan at the breakfast table that Milt Gross dispenses with his smott crecks, that Galli Curei temporarily quits singing and that Hoppe regretfully lays aside...
...Judge Thayer. He approached me one evening, however, called me by name and began to talk to me about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I soon was able to gather that he was the Presiding Judge, but even then I did not know his name. . . . One morning at breakfast I particularly remember because it seemed to me that Judge Thayer at that time exhibited his prejudice and bias in the most notable manner. On this morning he either came to the table where I was sitting and asked if he could have breakfast with me, or he called...
...daily mass in the bedroom where his predecessor Benedict XV died in 1922. (This is the quaint custom of respect which Popes have long paid their immediate predecessors?to pray in the death chamber.) Soon after he attends a second early mass. Then to his private apartments for breakfast of coffee with milk, bread, butter...