Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
...years ago no gentleman built a country house without putting in a billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening...
...opened at a hotel breakfast table. James J. Walker, the dapper, glib, little mick who is Mayor of New York, was pleading with photographers and newsgatherers. He held up his coffee cup. "I really want to drink it," he said...
...last nap before his ten o'clock class the Catholic Church east of the Gold Coast chimes a mellifluous quarter hour and it is time for him to get up. At Arthur's ten minutes later it is still quarter to ten; so, reassured, he sits down to hearty breakfast. At ten precisely he begins his leisurely stroll to class until he casually glances up at the Memorial Hall to find to his consternation that it, is six minutes past the hour. One minute to make class if he hurries...
...President continued his almost alphabetical breakfasts at 8 a.m. for members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Senatorial list, already down to the S's-Shortridge, Swanson, etc.-preceded down among the W's-Wagner, Walsh, Waterman, Wheeler. At one breakfast last week, for the first time, were three women - staid Mrs. Mary Theresa Norton of New Jersey, sprightly...