Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
Correspondents live circumscribed routine lives in Moscow, have their most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing...
Salvador Dali was last week living in the swank Del Monte Hotel in Del Monte, Calif. He said he had breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 12:45, dinner at 8, played chess with Mrs. Dali after dinner. Most of the time he spent in his hotel room...
...Langers had tea for breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...
...will leave at 10:10 o'clock Friday morning from Park Square. A joint rehearsal will be held at 4:30 at Smith followed by supper with the Smith Glee Club. A dance for the two glee clubs will follow the performance. The men will also breakfast with the Smith girls...