Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Outlines- of History - of Science - of Art large, impressive looking books - copiously illustrated - well printed - mental bouillon cubes for an age that takes its information like its breakfast cereal, on the run, and, if possible, predigested - another century may find, perhaps, the whole scope of human knowledge boiled down and salted away in one magnificent, laconic Outline of Outlines, supplanting colleges and five-foot shelves alike. At any rate, here is the first volume of The Outline of Literature - 294 pages covering the rise and progress of human letters from the first books in the world...
...mail. Nothing but fan-mail. And the whole human comedy ? ? tragedy ? farce ? exultation ? despair?coming in every morning to the breakfast-tables of a score or fifty not-so-very-extraordinary citizens of these states, done up in all sorts of envelopes, postmarked with the names of places of which in many cases the recipients have never even heard...
...President of the Board of Trade, threatened to bring suit for Senator Capper's "defamation of character" of the Board's 1,598 members); Julius H. Barnes warned the farmers against the fallacy of price fixing; Senator Copeland advised everybody to eat another slice of bread for breakfast...
...bread and water is only meted out to those who assault their fellow immigrants (a Negro was the only one so treated for several weeks); that the menu on the day the two women were at Ellis Island consisted of: prunes, oatmeal with milk, bread, butter and coffee (for breakfast); bean soup, potted beef with vegetables and rice pudding (for dinner); macaroni with tomato sauce, blackberry jelly with tea, coffee or milk (for supper); in addition graham crackers and milk three times a day; that the amount of food served was unlimited...
...raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood Broun. Of course, my favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart. He is a friend of mine, and I am not ashamed to write about it. Quite well, I remember a breakfast at the Yale Club when Don, having given up his job of selling bonds, told me that he was about to earn his living...