Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purse-potent British mine owners chomped their breakfast bacon and kippers contentedly. The coal strike they believed was cracking. Premier Baldwin, sometimes inclined to be sentimental toward the miners, was away "water-curing" at Aix-les-Bains. When the Times was brought in by many a butler last week, many a mine owner let it lie negligently for a moment beside his plate. Perhaps it might contain a new outburst against the miners by half bald and otherwise red-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill. There was no sentimentality about "Winnie"-a grandson of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough...
...President finished breakfast, glanced at his morning mail, then climbed in his punctual limousine, sped* to Plattsburg, N. Y. He arrived. Cannon boomed 21 times, buglers sounded the Presidential flourish, the regimental band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and Hail to the Chief. Within five minutes, the Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy was on the reviewing stand, flanked by Col. John H. Hughes, commander of the Plattsburg military training camp, and Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall...
...room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into effect...
...busy the "international road," the press, is kept by the pagan deities in question. None knew better how Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament. Mars, the god who more than any other has the power to forge huge newspaper circulations (the Spanish-American...
Venus at the breakfast table...