Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast last week went the Navy's general board to discuss tonnage reduction with the President. Grizzled old officers were assured that their opinions would not be ignored. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who had interrupted his summer yachting to be present, went back to the State Department to call Ambassador Dawes in London on the trans-Atlantic telephone, to appraise him of what the White House had discussed...
First Day. Lady Drummond Hay rose first the next morning and went shouting through the passageways: "I was first up of all. I'm hungry. You'd better get up or you'll miss breakfast." Passengers Leeds, Richards, paid no heed, slept until luncheon. Sir Hubert Wilkins, always taciturn, apologized for his large breakfast appetite, settled down to read a book...
...Hardboiled eggs have been served at breakfast, this not with the intention of furnishing hard-boiled eggs but because the cooking arrangements were such that by the time the eggs in the bottom of the large cooking utensils have been removed, they have been allowed to cook beyond the soft-boiled stage...
...understanding of the patients that only one egg was allowed for breakfast . . . was justified, since only one egg per individual was placed upon the tables and the patients did not understand they might obtain another egg upon request...
...summertime, behind stone walls, barbed wire and grilled iron, lives the Richest Man. Thither he returned last week from Lakewood, N. J., his annual intermediate stop between the North and Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which...