Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice (Mouvet), famed dancer in cabarets and night clubs* in the U. S. and Europe, to one Carlos Basualdo, Argentine millionaire; in Manhattan. Maurice is said to have sobbed, groaned, wept piteously during the ceremony, was mollified when his ex-partner wept with him, invited him to the wedding breakfast...
...Breakfast hours in the Freshman Dormitories will be from 7.30 to 9 o'clock, instead of from 7 to 8.30 o'clock, if Dean Whitney grants the petition which the Gore Hall Dormitory committee sent him today. When Dean Whitney lunched with the Gore Committee yesterday, the subject was broached. The Dean explained that if all the Dormitory Committees should petition, he would institute the plan provisionally. Individual members of the Smith and Standish Committees declared themselves in favor of the idea. They expressed the belief that their committees would petition tomorrow...
...Visitors at the White House included: the Massachusetts delegation in Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, for a "social" breakfast; the Congressional members of a Commission appointed to arrange the celebration of the 200th anniversary (in 1932) of the birth of George Washington, for breakfast; Frank J. Irwin, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans to discuss plans for adequate hospital facilities for veterans; Mickey Walker, welterweight boxing champion, to present a pair of five-ounce boxing gloves with the injunction: "Use 'em on your next Congress;" George Spring Meyer, of Reno, to present a photograph of the graduating class...
Then, with the suddenness of breakfast, folk discovered last week, that the great Baptist billionaire would contribute $500,000?a sum more than twice as great as that given by any other individual.* The prospect changed. The Cathedral fund jumped to nearly half, the requisite. It might be built in the Bishop's life time...
...fleet to the enemy. To men whose whole lives had been spent in the Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when he went to bed and upon the rare occasions when he played tennis. And, as if a uniformed...