Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would-he delightful to be a committee! For decisions would be unnecessary. The vexed question of getting up, for instance, could be well left to the following day because there was no quorum. Doubts as to whether to eat bran of graham inufilns for breakfast would dissolve for they could be referred to a subcommittee which in turn would consider recommending the consideration of recommendations...
...performed this transmorphosis is extremely modest. Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist, described him by saying: "He likes double- breasted sack coats, large brunette cigars, his friends, chocolate bonbons, his family, the Grand Canyon, two cups of coffee for breakfast, and rhododendrons on his front lawn...
Three quarters of a century ago, Boston was acknowledged throughout the country to be the intellectual center of America; Emerson meditated in Concord, and Oliver Wendell Holmes scintillated daily at the breakfast table. It was a period of literary brilliance, and the chilly reaches of the Back Bay were warmed under the sun of national esteem. Of late years, however, Boston has lost much of its quondam glory. Its great ones have departed, and the eiderdown quilt of mediocrity has descended upon its literature and its drama...
...student in the University interested in trap-shooting will be eligible to attend the meeting of the Harvard Gun Club in Randolph Breakfast Room this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock, when plans for the spring shooting will get under way. F. W. Potter '24, president of the club, will be in charge...
...meeting of the recently organized Silver Bay Committee, held in Randolph Breakfast room yesterday afternoon, plans were discussed for the thirty-ninth Annual Conference for college men to be held at Silver Bay, New York, for the fifth consecutve year. The object of these conferences is to discuss social, religious, and economic problems of the day, a series of lectures being given by prominent specialists in these fields...