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Word: breakfasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breakfast at No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Senator McNary of Oregon (coauthor of the vetoed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill) and sundry powers of the Republican party shook hands all around. "We will pour balm on the farmers' wounds. Senator McNary will go scouting in the West and report to the President next summer with a compromise bill that will satisfy agriculture and not vex industry. Congress will pass the bill next winter," said last week's breakfasters in effect. Such strategy was predicted three weeks ago (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Having held a. "harmony" breakfast with Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, Speaker Longworth and several members of Congress, the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended Easter services at the auditorium temporarily used by the First Congregational Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Queer Eyed | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Effeminate War Lord | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount of his breakfast by a quarter of a dollar. Bright eyed and mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other on the window whence come signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

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