Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other resources, paying with occupation marks of little value. German soldiers get double rations. But even with all the food taken from Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare. Sample menu: for breakfast, ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets...
...ever have breakfast at Ronda...
...zest for radio. The Workshop expects to produce a few plays a month. And they will have a guaranteed outlet to the college via the Crimson Network. No author will have a better chance to have his opus praised or picked to bits than at the next morning's breakfast table. With plenty of "free air" available, Harvard should be swarming with Maxwell Andersons if the law of supply and demand holds good...
Meanwhile the Disney lot rang with the sound of classical music. Patient engineers who had never been to a concert in their lives listened to 35 to 710 performances of each composition, ended up whistling Bach. Beethoven and even Stravinsky at breakfast. Idea men, working on the dulcet strains of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, winced at the bedlam of Stravinsky's Rite which other technicians were playing next door. (The Rite finally had to be quarantined in a special corner of the lot, where its boom-lay-booms could be studied without disturbing the whole studio...
...When three correspondents were reported missing after the Battle of Vicksburg, General Sherman remarked: "That's good. We'll have dispatches now from hell before breakfast...