Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is told at a Harvard student who went into a final examination and within ten minutes handed in his blue book in which were written but two sentences: "Dear Professor, I have looked over your examination, but it doesn't interest me. Besides, I haven't had any breakfast, so I think I'll go out and get some...
...Wednesday, Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. had accompanied Judge Elbert H. Gary and eight other spokesmen of the National Citizens' Committee of One Thousand for Law Enforcement to Washington-o breakfast with Calvin Coolidge...
...Janes and Joans ever catch their fathers and mothers agreeing to the monstrous proposal that summer, Christmas and Easter vacations are not an inseparable part of school curricula, their cereals will not remain uneaten on their plates, but will be plastered on the walls, ceilings, floors of many a breakfast room. As for the World, its unfortunate delivery boys will be ambushed as they make their morning rounds, will be roughly handled...
When little Tom, Dick and Harry and their female counterparts, Mary, Jane and Joan, gathered around the breakfast table one morning last week, according to their several dispositions, they found their parents reading with serious mien the editorial page of The New York World. Little did they know what seemingly diabolical plots were being hatched against them. Had it been otherwise, their post-toasties, shredded wheat or bran would have been pushed aside in a paroxysm of childish petulance...
Cereals plastered on the walls, ceilings, floors of many a breakfast room...