Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father and George and Jeff, brothers, are delighted, even if Walt does hammer all around his nailheads and sit on a rafter reading Homer and Aeschylus at lunch hour. He has "quit loafing." But the morning comes when he is late for breakfast and they find him sitting up in bed, the floor strewn with loose papers, writing again. They guess he is hopeless...
...remember the past is to sit in a theatre of shadows listening to lies. "... Never without his high hat ..." ? "Always drove his own team down to business . . ."?"It was breakfast, mind you, but the champagne . . ." The people who filled a bulky old building in Irving Place and 14th Street, Manhattan, one afternoon last week looked at one another suspiciously, each feeling that the rest had no business there. In the theatre of memory one sits alone. But the members of this audience tolerated one another because their theatre was a reality? a hideous brown edifice, the Academy...
...Although Hiram Johnson, Senator from California, is well disposed toward the White House, he has not displayed cordiality toward any of its recent occupants. Of late the President has been inviting Senators to share his griddle cakes at breakfast. Last week Senator Johnson was one of those so honored. It is customary for the President to go in to breakfast side by side with the senior Senator present. An aide indicated Senator Johnson to the President. The President offered his arm. And together they walked. The others went smiling after...
...companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...
...Partakers of the President's breakfast last week were Senators Borah, Fess, Hale, Oddie, Gillett, Shortridge, Dale, Moses, Goff and Williams. All are Republicans. Their attention is reported to have been centred on the food to the exclusion of legislative matters...