Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mighty Chicago millionaires have a new breakfast luxury. For $200 a year they may buy the Chicago Daily Tribune on fine, white, imperishable rag paper. Even the most ostentatiously rich, however, are expected to avail themselves sparingly of this luxury. The rag paper edition will go principally to libraries and record rooms where permanent files are a crying need...
...story is that of a young Austrian who is roused from his wedding breakfast by the call to arms. His bride waits for him, trying to find money with which to buy food for herself and her baby, her mind always a battlefield of fears and sorrows. At last the young lieutenant who is supposed to have been killed, reappears for a conclusion that weakens, somewhat, the effect of the picture's sound and peaceful propaganda...
Habits: Smokes not; drinks not. Does not gamble. Eats a thoroughgoing breakfast. Prefers light luncheon and dinner when permitted. Avoids rich dishes. Likes sweets...
...President there was much talk of corruption in Washington. Bclknap and Dent his brother-in-law were the chief ones to blame. The President said "Let no guilty man escape." Wouldn't it be fine if pur President would choose to say as much, instead of entertaining at breakfast such men as -, - and big -*? Oh, for Roosevelt at such a time! JAMES S. BELL Franklin...
...substantial meal of fruit, cereal, toast, and coffee was served for the price of $.35. The informal atmosphere of the breakfast room and the amount of food obtainable for the sum extracted from the break-fasters brought favorable comment from the clientele...