Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morning came. We wanted breakfast. "Holloa! Holloa!" we called to our porters. No answer. We looked about us--not a striped tie. We used powerful glasses--not a club-carrying guide in sight. Crazed with terror by the strange surroundings, they had fled while we slept. What...
...defiance of superstition or in deference to colonial tradition that President Coolidge invites 13 guests at a time to breakfast parties? It is neither, but simply that 13 is the number of guests that can be seated comfortably around the White House table without putting in extra table-leaves. Last week there was a series of breakfasts at which the guests were groups of Congressmen 13 strong. Most notable was the Tuesday morning breakfast, attended by Senators sharing President Coolidge's antipathy toward the Jones shipping bill. For all the breakfasters' palavering, the bill passed the Senate that...
...nothing to make the boy aware of himself or his talent, and the Russian father and the Tartar mother have been just as wise. Yehudi lives on a regular schedule with his sisters Hephzibah who is seven and Yaltah who is five. He gets up at seven, exercises, has breakfast, practices for three hours, has lunch, plays outdoors all the afternoon, has dinner and goes to bed at seven. Ask him what he likes best and his answer will be Bach and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Mozart and San Francisco and ice-cream sodas (the first thing...
Ashore once more, all was well with President Coolidge. He rode around the streets of Key West in an automobile, climbed into the Coolidge Special, slumbered deeply up the Keys and through Florida to Jacksonville, where he got up and called for a breakfast beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Last week, in Lake Forest, Ill., an old man was having his breakfast. Suddenly, he put his napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every...