Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that Ethiopia is thankful for the sympathy extended by other peace-loving nations. Haile Selassie approached the Abuna, kissed the prelate's silver cross draped in silk. The bearded Emperor put on his shoes, walked out among his subjects, drove back to his palace and breakfast...
...plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...
...range. It came out done to a turn. Satisfied, Edison General Electric Appliance Co. announced that the $5,000 stove to be installed in the White House kitchen, now being renovated at a cost of $152,000, had passed all tests, was fit to cook the President's breakfast or a dinner for 150 diplomats...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: On his new 80-acre farm near Broken Bow, Oklahoma's onetime Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray roused himself from a night's sleep on the cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard, shambled unrecognized into the village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session...
...morning last week Franklin Roosevelt was offered nothing more than cereal and coffee for breakfast. A small electric stove on the third floor of the White House was all that provided the President of the U. S. with hot food. Rated capacity of the stove was three modest meals at a time. Franklin Roosevelt was keeping bachelor hall. Mrs. Roosevelt had scampered off to Campobello Island in Canada. Left in the White House with the President were only his sick secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, Mrs. Howe and Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand. Since neither the President nor ailing...