Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rising at 6:30 every morning, the Pope says mass in his private chapel before breakfast, which is at 8. Breakfast consists of coffee with milk, bread, butter. The mail is brought in, is divided among seven secretaries...
...history of the world, the outline of science, digests of the world's humor, even the recent "Outline of Everything" show more or less the same tendency--the attempt to gain much in little. Even the newspapers cater to the general desire to understand all about the universe before breakfast. And the large reaction lurking in a cocktail, though sought by only the most debased, is sought with a similar, if somewhat tarnished, end in view...
When Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton and the redoubtable G. B. S. came to words over the relative merits of different types of breakfast foods, they indulged as is their wont, in the discussion of a very serious and vital subject. Mr. Shaw recommended fresh fruits and cereals, which had been demanded by Americans in London, and which contrasted sharply with the traditional British breakfast of bacon and eggs, or some other kind of meat, supported by Mr. Chesterton...
Consequently Messrs, Shaw and Chesterton in arguing about the best breakfast rations displayed the effects of the own very different diets. Mr. Chesterton, being a meat-eater of the first water (if that is possible) contented himself with a rather dogmatic defense, attacking the habits of the Americans of which he probably knows very little--and the undoubted intelligence of Mr. Shaw. The latter vindicated vegetarianism with his usual flashing wit and imagination--and best of all, Americans for once found a satisfactory champion...
...layman are the chapters on "An Analysis of News", "The Copyreader at Work", "Makeup", and "An Outline of Newspaper Routine", for, without being too highly technical, they answer many of his questions about the how and the why of the profession that makes possible the reading at his breakfast table every morning of the latest reports from Washington and Wales, Tokio and Thibet, Somerville and South Africa...