Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, remote, mysterious General MacArthur managed to retain complete privacy where even Australian and U.S. nurses had to glance aside lest they blush at the spectacle of grimy soldiers bathing in the nude under roadside showers. One U.S. soldier, seeing the General one morning before breakfast, ran back to his comrades, exclaimed: "He was under the trees in a pink silk dressing gown with a black dragon on the back...
...newspaper reading public, which the news from the Solomons has kept in a mood of sustained optimism for the past several weeks, received a distinct shock about halfway through breakfast yesterday morning to see that "we are still losing the war in the Pacific." This startling announcement came from Republican Representative Melvin Maas of Minnesota, who gave a radio address on Thursday night with this as his punch point. To add to the confusion, Maas threw in the old story of no unified command and lack of cooperation between Army and Navy--all of this on top of recent assurances...
Many of these drawings need no captions. Their effect on Addams-addicts is as reassuring as the effect on the weird witch of the monstrous Karloff-like creature who brings in her breakfast in one of Addams' best-known drawings. "On, it's only you!" she says, glancing at him sidewise. "For a moment you gave me quite a start...
...found a captain and a soldier in a jeep taking breakfast to an outpost of four soldiers five miles away. "I think," said the General, "he should have been inspecting his command and had that task accomplished by one of the cooks...
...makes his own breakfast and gets to his office about 5:20. By 8 a.m. he has whisked through the Associated Press copy and typed out three solid columns of editorials. At 8:10 he holds an editorial conference; at 8:25 he walks downstairs, across a catwalk on the second-story roof and into the broadcasting studio of WRNL. Half of Richmond is giving ear when the Doctor goes on the air at 8:30 with his morning news and homily. The station people are awed by his ability to spin out a steady, mellifluous 15-minute newscast without...