Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduate ate a special Mem Hall early breakfast and caught a private train to Springfield, where they alighted to wander around waving crimson flags and flunting crimson neckwear and Harvard buttons till game time, 2:15 o'clock...
Nonconformist. In Jersey City, an eccentric cat who eats hard-boiled eggs for breakfast distinguished himself by learning, after soaping, to take a warm shower...
General Zhukov has energy to throw away. As commander at Kiev, he used to ride 20 miles before breakfast, then work twelve hours straight. He fenced with his aides till they were bleary-eyed...
...said she hadn't been in a dress shop since May 1940, denied that she bought 34 hats at Bergdorf Goodman. She beat him at a game of darts when they played at the Seamen's Church Institute. The Waldorf-Astoria said he made his own breakfast tea. At a broadcasting studio they laughed their heads off at Eddie Cantor. They arrived at Lady in the Dark 25 minutes late, chatted with Gertrude Lawrence in her dressing room. He wore out reporters in a fast five-hour tour of United Aircraft Corp. plant in East Hartford...
...finds it one into which it is difficult to sink his teeth-it jumps back like a playful puppy every time he looks at it-as he slides back a bit in his leather chair in the lobby of the Bolivar and tries again. Four mornings later, over breakfast in bed, he says, in a loud voice: "Why am I here? Bullfights?-rather dull after the first time. Movies?-six months after New York. The races?-only on Sundays." Getting no answer because no polite person ever points out the obvious, he does one of two things depending...