Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placid business. The thousands of green benches along the city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings of cautious baseball, and Webb's Cut Rate Store (one egg, two strips of bacon, hominy grits for breakfast, 3? ; with coffee and a doughnut, 8?) cashed their modest checks by the thousand...
...hand pinching his nose in disgust. Always the camera seems to be giving the narrative a special meaning where it will help most: picturing a small bottle beside a tumbler when Susan Kane is lying drugged with an overdose of sedatives, exploring the love nest and the family breakfast table like a pair of prying eyes and ears...
Died. William Read Randolph, 20, tall, blond sophomore at St. Mary's University (Texas), son of the late Captain William M. Randolph for whom U. S. Army Randolph Field was named; of injuries received when the plane he was piloting on a St. Mary's Flying Club breakfast flight crashed in heavy mist at Boerne...
Three years ago, at this time, the Cantabs were pleading for mixed swimming between Harvard and Radcliffe students in the Indoor Athletic Building's pool. And one nature lover had already opened his window one morning and invited a squirrel to breakfast on some unpopped popcorn, only to arouse the whole dormitory a few minutes later when he went dancing down the corridors trying to shake choose the squirrel which had tenaciously fastened his teeth on Shea's right index finger...
Robey drew up an impressive list of excerpts in which social scientists had said that business men, even the ones who said their prayers every night, were not as good as they should be because they squandered natural resources, dominated the press, formed monopolies, played politics, and advertised breakfast foods in the guise of feminine freshness. This, cried Robey, was indoctrination. It was a condemnation of our "traditional liberties." Our children were being taught "that the American way is wrong, that some alien way is better." Oh shameful indifference toward "those ideals and principles which have distinguished the American...