Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midshipmen training in Manhattan, enthusiast James Joseph Tunney, the Navy's new physical director, demonstrated his new setting-up exercises, swore that after 60 days a man would rather go without breakfast than them. To officers, Director Tunney demonstrated his special new rope-&-pulley exerciser, designed for the liquidation of naval corporations...
Kidding himself, breakfast foods, Mother, and "Orson," he sashayed through a primer that contained a lot of deft, well-timed writing. He produced some more than casually turned lyrics, and a good deal of information about what goes on in a radio studio.¶stood for Crossley ratings. M was for Mother ("All mothers are wise, and most of them speak with a sectional accent"). O was for Orson, celebrated in a lyric commencing "Who is Orson? What is he, that all the critics hail him?" and ending "All is well that ends with Welles." At Q, quizzes came...
Chairman of the Student Council, captain of the squash team, and president of the Council of Government Concentrators, the handsome Senior is shown in every phase of his life from doing pushups in his underwear before breakfast to admiring the state of his wardrobe...
...steak for breakfast, lunch, dinner. Popular, well-behaved, hungry, they made friends with the police, made friends with the senoritas, made friends with the barmaids, all in no time. By the time the Bear sailed for Boston and the North Star for Seattle, the excitement of returning was over; the women no longer seemed like sloe-eyed goddesses, and for breakfast bacon & eggs tasted better than steak...
...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...