Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hackley Club will hold the first meeting of the year at 7.15 o'clock this evening in the Randolph Breakfast Room. Plans will be discussed for the entertainment of the school football team which will meet the Country Day eleven next Saturday...
...rebellion has broken out in Smith Hall. After two long weeks of breakfast at which boiled eggs have alternated with boiled eggs on the daily menu, the Freshmen in that dormitory have risen in wrath. During luncheon yesterday some doughty leader of the crusade tacked on the bulletin board at the door of the dining hall a piece of theme paper with the following legend. "We, the undersigned, desire some other main dish for breakfast than eggs...
...crusaders however are not vanquished by this first rebuff. They declare that they will continue their fight against the breakfast egg and that before another week they expect to be rewarded with ash or hash for breakfast...
Perhaps a few years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...
...only limit to its popularity and production of real stars is the lack of courts. On the school campus we have no room for courts so I leave our tennis net on the porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...