Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibility of the current restlessness developing into a general G. M. strike that the full executive committee was summoned last week into emergency session, and John L. Lewis dispatched a personal representative to attend. After an all-night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake...
...born in the little city of Albi in 1864. His father, Count Alphonse, was a former army officer, an ardent horseman, an eccentric. Each morning in the Bois de Boulogne he used to ride a brood mare to the fashionable "Cascade" restaurant, dismount, milk his horse, drink his breakfast, ride home again...
...split up into small details, functioned successfully in attack, retreat, flank and encirclement maneuvers. Last week the P. I. D. had had time to become sufficiently well coordinated to show what it could really do in the way of rapid motion. On Nov. 8, after a breakfast of 12,000 apples, 24,000 eggs, 560 Ib. of coffee, the P. I. D., operating with 10,000 men set out from San Antonio in three columns to bivouac grounds 150 miles farther North. Two successive night marches, made in complete darkness except for the lights of cars leading columns, enabled...
...Ludgate Circus an iron-lipped whistler continued to shrill Night Must Fall until a crowd threatened to lynch hihim, and at Spitalfield Market Church the sentimental silence was shattered by a realist who suddenly shouted: "The dead are all right. What about me? I haven't had any breakfast!" Police had to rescue...
Funniest scenes: Actor Howard shocking a stuffy breakfast group with a Shakespearean outburst on an improperly cooked kipper; Comic Blore trying to signal his master by frantic birdcalls, over determined competition from a nearby aviary...