Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chambermaid who served him early morning tea in his hotel room. "How's the war going?" Mr. Willkie asked. Said she: "Of course we're going to win but I think we'd like a little more help from America." To the waiter at breakfast he shot the same question, got much the same answer...
...Some of her plays were dramatically feeble ? but she was always the delectable Lawrence. The London Times's dramatic critic observed: "Miss Lawrence's performance is nearly always a matter of making bricks without straw." The management of His Majesty's Theatre once had to serve breakfast, lunch and tea to a queue of 300 who had lined up 24 hours before a Lawrence first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure Girl, Candle Light with Leslie Howard, Lew Leslie's International Review, Noel Coward's Private Lives...
...Leica, always has it with him. His gun-battle pictures last week climaxed a year of lucky breaks. On Jan. 17, 1940, at Madison Square Garden, Haas caught the first picture of Sonja Henie doing a fall on ice. Three weeks later he was strolling down the street after breakfast, Leica in hand, when Furman Richard Jaeckel fell from a window overhead, landed on a canopy. Max Haas got that one too. He has twice won Leica awards for his pictures-once (in 1936) for a shot of German Fighter Max Schmeling looking out of the dirigible Hindenburg, once...
...knows at least as many of Franklin Roosevelt's secrets as Lord Halifax knows of his Prime Minister's. The British press promptly hailed New Dealer Hopkins for refusing to bed in a London air-raid shelter, for getting up early and eating "a good breakfast with some good American coffee" in his room at Claridge's, for taking good-humoredly his British valet's suggestion that he buy plenty of English-type white shirts without attached collars and get himself some long woolen underwear...
...morning a little girl's mother cooked a new kind of breakfast cereal. The child lifted a spoonful, put it in her mouth. Her lips and tongue swelled like balloons. She fell into a spasm of coughing, began to suffocate, fainted. When the doctor arrived on the run, he saw at once what had happened, injected adrenalin. In a few hours, restored to normal, the little girl was scampering around as though nothing had happened. There was nothing wrong with the cereal except that it contained flaxseed, to which the child was violently allergic...