Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article caught the eye: "NOTED PRELATE HERE SUNDAY. "The Most Reverend John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati, will arrive . . . early Sunday morning . . . will breakfast at the temporary episcopal residence in the Chancery building . . . and will say mass at one of the churches...
Erasmus would stand out in relief on any day, not only on a Saturday. But I have skipped two hours and my breakfast--this time of year is bad for breakfasts, what with grapefruit going quickly and strawberries not yet here. There is still applesauce--and Dryden's plays at 9 o'clock in Sever 30 when Professor Tatlock lectures to English 39. And there is Moussorgsky at noon in Music 4d, when Professor Hill will probably play some of his Slavic although not slavish works in the Music Building...
...clock when Professor Yeomans proposes to discuss in Harvard 2 the influence of the said clause upon the decisions of administrative officers. A technical subject, admitted, except for the student of government, but a vagabond must fight against those vague and fanciful feelings which assail one after a Georgian breakfast...
...hours from 10 to 11 o'clock must undoubtedly be devoted to a leisurely breakfast over which I shall discuss glands authoritatively. The beginning of the next hour will find me in the Germanic Museum, receptive as ever to the talk of Professor Howard, who promised me a story or two of the life of Grillparzer, the Austrian Dramatic poet. Educators make a fool of me, love made one of him. Today we are revenged on the world...
...poor man were able to exchange epigrams over his dinner table or even over his luncheon (Gor forbid that it should ever go so far as to disturb and tax his early morning breakfast mind), then the world might be richer by one drawing room comedy. But the days of the green carnation have passed and the circle has not yet returned upon itself. So, we find a play which has one mission in the world, to make its auditors turn and say, "Remember that, dear; we'll use it at the Bottomley's tomorrow night." And there...