Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cubans and the six small girls debarked and the two dozen Princetonians began to arise. J. Douglas Brown, professor of Economics at Princeton, was up, and, armed with a newspaper and without breakfast, boarded the special bus. An hour and a half later he was still alone in the 40 passenger bus behind his ninth paper...
...Sisi was enchanted. At 16 she was married, and the fairytale ended. There was no honeymoon trip. The morning after her horribly disillusioning wedding night (she had been well brought up), when she tried to hide in her room, Mother-in-law Sophie insisted on her facing the crowded breakfast table. From then on Sisi was on parade nearly every hour of the day. She hated it. More than anything else, she hated Sophie. And to Sophie, Sisi was never anything more than a bad bargain. When Sisi quickly became pregnant, Sophie scolded her for keeping parrots, said the sight...
...plot in brief makes some spicy jibes at the ultra-rich, shows Dick ridiculing Madelcine and Madeleine ridiculing Dick with an idyllic all night frolic thrown in between, marries the two through the martyrdom of Miss Faye, and winds up with a wedding breakfast in a wheel-less dining car. The thing is rollicking enough, but falls a little short of what the material would seem to permit...
...stroke of twelve one midnight last week the Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light acquired twp big generating stations, 7,600 mi. of line, 185,000 new customers and 800 new city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt...
...breakfast alone, glowering down at underdone griddle-cakes and overdone headlines. What a pity it is we humans can never concentrate the heat in the right places. To classes in the Yard all morning long, making private promises to do no cutting for several weeks. In the end it appears choice between the lectures and later imprisonment in the Widener reading-room. And who would not choose to have his learning injected one hour at a time...