Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manages to find time for his prewar recreations is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Fanatically vigorous for a 75-year-old, he carries out a daily program that would tax a man of 50. At "Woodley," his baronial estate in Washington, he tramps for an hour before breakfast, plays deck tennis for an hour before dinner, plays croquet with obvious condescension when oldsters like Secretary Hull are his guests. For pre-lunch exercise he keeps Indian clubs in his office. Twice a week he rides hired horses at Maryland's Meadowbrook Club, rides his own hunters weekends...
...appear once a week, as it has since its birth in February, but with the start of the summer term on July 1, the paper will be distributed on Tuesday and Friday mornings, and will continue at that rate until conditions again warrant the publication of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily...
Died. Gordon Hewart, 73, Viscount of Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1922 to 1940; after long illness; in Totteridge, Herefordshire. A rolypoly little man with a high voice, a low opinion of bureaucracy, broad interests, considerable wit, he read Horace before breakfast, spoke in epigrams, was one of England's greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality...
Died. Dr. Alexander P. Anderson, 80, experimental botanist, who put the air and noise into modern breakfast cereals; of heart disease; in Miami. Experimenting with a test-tubeful of rice at New York's Botanical Garden in 1901, he accidentally exploded it, picked up some of the blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder...
Maxine did not mind so long as everybody looked nice, had some traces of manners, played games and were not "too tiresome" about Kiki. Kiki was Maxine's pet lemur which used to attack the guests, upset breakfast trays, invade beds, leave "traces of its passing wherever it chose...