Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragic tale of fatality done into poetic prose. Dramatic in sweep, The Babyons is a distinguished piece of writing that glows with colorful finesse of concrete detail. Clemence Dane (Will Shakespeare, and A Bill of Divorcement) lives deep in Devonshire, where she feeds her guests cold ham for breakfast...
...John Coolidge, after spending a weekend at Madison, Wis., as guest of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, was asked how he passes the time at Cedar Island Lodge. Said he: "Eat breakfast. Take a little walk. Read. Eat lunch. Walk. Read. Eat dinner. Walk. Read...
...house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what a wag called "Hoovernirs...
Last week "Blunt Beelaerts," as scurrilous U. S. correspondents term him, consented to receive the press, an infrequent condescension. Evidently his breakfast eggs, toast, cheese, preserves and cups of chocolate had been especially satisfying, for "Blunt Beelaerts" proceeded to open with a Dutch pleasantry...
...simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face-to-face and mouth-to-ear with the whole electorate, can simply say: "Good morning, everybody. I'm feeling fine today. I had a good sleep and prunes for breakfast, thank you. As you can see, the weather's lovely here. I think I'll go fishing this afternoon. Don't forget what I said about intending to help the Farmer and to uphold the sanctity of our fine Constitution. That's about all for now. Goodbye...