Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain McMillan described a typical "day" on shipboard during the long and monotonous winter nights, when his boat was anchored off the coast of Greenland. "We used to get up at about 8 o'clock in the morning", he said. "We'd eat breakfast and then change the charts in the magnetic laboratory, which we set up for the purpose of studying terrestrial magnetism and its influence on navigation...
...President announced he would give a series of breakfast parties at the White House, and held the first one. Came Republican Senators Curtis, Borah, Moses, Norris, Wadsworth, Hale, Jones, Sterling, Warren, Spencer, McLean, Watson, Smoot, Cummins. Over their flapjacks, the company talked of Legislation...
...Early one bright morning, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge stood on their thresh- old. Up drove automobiles, out piled twoscore laughing, talkative guests. Everyone shook hands and then Mrs. Coolidge said: "Let's go in to breakfast." Immediately the President offered his arm to a tall, deep-voiced, blonde young lady named Charlotte Greenwood and led the party into the state dining-room. Mrs. Coolidge took the arm of a dignified gentleman named Colonel Rhinelander Waldo, then spied a smiling man called Al Jolson and took his arm as well. Said she: "I want two partners for this occasion...
...Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with 30 and The Boston Transcript with...
...Their plan was to bring him out upon the river in a small steamboat, which was to be accompanied by the college boat clubs. On his arrival he was to be treated to a breakfast, then to a dance in Harvard Hall, in which the students would take part and young ladies would be present. Young ladies such as any young man, whether prince or not, would like to dance with. Then he was to be made an honorary member of some of the College societies, and initiated into their secrets and the day was to finish with receptions...