Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mustache Manhattan already entertained an admiration that was to grow and grow as the barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career. He finished with a gesture?and Charles Evans Hughes, pleased, handed...
...From the White House came news that the President's physicians had prescribed ham and eggs for breakfast instead of New England sausages. Sausages are fattening. Two days later, Senator Watson of Indiana told his friend how, at a White House breakfast, Rob Roy, Presidential white collie, had stolen half a sausage from his plate...
Vice-Chancellor Weekes, speaking from London, will not be making an after-breakfast telephone call as will President Lowell. It will be afternoon in England when he speaks. The hour of the inauguration of the new line was selected with a view toward-favorable climatic conditions and the convenience of the customers who will begin using the line shortly after the formal opening...
...still another way will the headmasters have a chance to see college life in Harvard at close range. Plans have been made to have the headmasters take their breakfast and luncheon in one of the Freshman dining halls. Standish Hall having been assigned, for this use. Freshmen living and eating in Standish Hall will continue to take their meals at their regular place, and their presence will enable the head-masters to have informal discussions with the undergraduates sitting near them...
Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains. It was a new newspaper in Denver, the Morning Post. It had been started to drown out the Rocky Mountain News at the Rocky Mountain breakfast table in retaliation for an attack by the News' new owners upon the old-time Denver Post in the evening field...