Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiddler John Wilder, 81, uncle of the President, came bustling up the White House drive at 6:45 a. m. The Coolidges entertained him with breakfast...
...Philadelphia last week, one John B. Bolton, superintendent at John Bromley & Sons, Inc. (laces, carpets) ate his breakfast with a leisureliness that masked a new gusto while Mrs. Bolton methodically sorted soiled clothes for the electric washing machine. Both tried to act as they had regularly done all the years of their marriage. But their red-headed daughter, Eliza May, for three months bedridden with a nervous breakdown, was openly joyful. Now she could go traveling for her health, for Father had just become a millionaire...
...morning after the day before. The President arose earlier than usual, took a long walk on the streets of downtown Washington, returned to the White House, ate a hearty breakfast. Then in his office in an easy chair in front of the tall south windows he read newspapers and election telegrams, placidly. Messengers came in with more despatches; he picked them up mechanically, smoking slowly. The expression on his face was as emotionless as that of a man thoughtfully perusing the telephone directory. Then William Randolph Hearst came in for luncheon, suggested that the President go to California...
...swearing." Mrs. Coolidge asked: "What was profane swearing'?" The clerk could not answer. So they climbed in their car again and proceeded to Oak Hill, the 2,000-acre estate of President Monroe. Here the President and Mrs. Coolidge saw dinosaur footprints in the stone flooring of the breakfast room, had tea. A detour on the return to the White House added pleasure to the trip...
...Overseers reported that "Freshmen, as well as others, are seen in great numbers going into town on Sabbath mornings to provide breakfast." Here is the prototype of the modern student, rumpled and unshaven, sallying forth into Harvard Square on Sunday morning for his "Times" and toast. But the defection from Commons proved so general and so violent, that gentler laws were passed, permitting the hungry to seek elsewhere for their sustenance, and it is no doubt from the passage of these laws that the growth of the present facilities dates...