Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Anne Forrest, who plays Diane is as pathetic a golden haired girl who "hadn't been good" as ever walked the streets of Montmartre in an American play. For two fall acts she is tyrannized by the depraved sister, the ghastliest apparation that ever sipped absinthe for breakfast. Miss Grace Mencken, as the sister Nana, succeeded in raising the gooseflesh of horror on one member of the audience, at least, for the first time since the Phantom of the Opera was unmasked. As Chico, a handsome, Apache-like figure, turned atheist after burning candles and praying without avail...
Since the University menu is rather devoid of manna for early rising Vagabonds, I see no reason to face the world of culture and the criticism thereof until the late hour of ten when I shall probably breakfast--not en pantouffles--at the Georgian where it is rumored there will be fresh cream for the first morning in some months and a new and lighter group of doughnuts. Having then apprized myself of various financial rises in the locality which have my Vagabond mind rather worried, I shall wend my way to Sever 35 where Dr Maynadier at eleven...
...till 1857 when Oliver Wendell junior was 16, that he joined with Jamer Russell Lowell in founding a magazine. Holmes called it The Atlantic Monthly. In a large measure Holmes "made" the magazine and it "made" him, through the publication of his essays, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, followed by The Professor, etc., and The Poet, etc. In these he exhibited his wit?noted in conversation?and his liberal opinions...
Last week he escaped from "No. 10" to "Chequers," the spacious country house which the British Government provides as an antidote to Downing Street. There he entertained the famed Berkeley Hunt at a sumptuous breakfast set out upon long tables, whistled the Berkeley pack about him, genially called many a canine by name...
...which would make that figure and the Postum organazition itself mere drops in the bucket. Wall Street took seriously the thought that there would eventually be a combine between the Postum-made merger and National Food Products. Among companies mentioned for the combination was the Shredded Wheat Co., successful breakfast concern...