Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to their tastes, they arose at 9:45 a.m., snatched a cup of coffee and hurried to the White House to be in line for the President and Mrs. Coolidge at 11. Then they went to the lavish Pan-American Building to have a diplomatic buffet breakfast with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. As they smoked Mr. Kellogg's cigarets and watched the Aztec fountain play, they exchanged many a felicitation. Most of Washington's bigwigs and their ladies were there-Cabinet members, ambassadors, ministers, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, Army and Navy officers...
...pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks. ... I am like some frantic baker in the inferno kneading a batch of iron bread for the devil's breakfast...
...before Christmas, Herman's trouser pocket began to bulge. Now and then, as he reached for the door lever, his pocket clinked. Going up from the ground floor, coming down from the sky, hearty businessmen full of good breakfast or luncheon, swooped under their overcoats and brought out folded bills, crumpled bills, gold coins...
...Union to form club tables, it was announced by the Union management yesterday. Applications for groups of from six to 12 men should be made at the office of the Graduate Secretary as soon as possible. Only luncheon and dinner will be served in the new rooms, since breakfast will be obtainable individually in the main dining room...
...price of board or 17 meals per week including breakfast at 30 cents would be $8.50: and the price for 21 meals would be $10.85. Tables will be reserved for such groups as long as attendance keeps up to an average of 80 per cent of the club' membership...