Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast was held to which were invited Congressional leaders, in order, to discuss plans for agricultural legislation in accordance with the Conference's report...
...public ought to feel that when work goes on here it is not attended with the terrific physical strain that everybody seems to think necessarily goes with the office. "President Coolidge trains for the work of his office as a prize fighter trains for a fight. He has his breakfast at 7, his luncheon at 1 and his dinner at 7. He takes his exercise regularly in the morning and late in the afternoon, and he retires early. The drive is not 24 hours long...
...busy half hour before 9 o'clock in the student's life may be made less hectle in the future. Getting breakfast and signing for a squash court have proved too much for many students, especially those in the grauate schools and those who live at some distance from the Yard. Because of protests from these men, a sheet has been posted in the squash courts on which provision is made for the signature of those who do and do not favor the proposal to have the squash court reservation sheet posted at 8.30 instead...
From the roof of the CRIMSON building the sun looked like a new moon. At breakfast tables and on the way to examinations a frequent comment was to the effect that the phenomenon was "not half as effective as any moonlight night...
White eyeballs rolled, puffy lips twitched, dining-car waiters nudged one another. Amid the jingling of knives, forks, glasses, the clatter of tableware that trembled, if ever so slightly, as a famed express sped towards Chicago, they whispered about a certain passenger. There he sat, slim, blond, eating-for breakfast, two apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap...