Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining room of a West Side bungalow in Chicago one day last week, nine chattering girls sat down to breakfast with a fleshy, fatherly, balding man whose eyes twinkled with self-satisfaction. The cottage was their office, the man their boss. For them President Otto E. Eisenschiml of Scientific Oil Compounding Co. (processors and distributors of vegetable oils) had just bought a tank car of linseed oil-theirs to resell when they like. He gets back his purchase price and stands the losses, if any. They get the profits...
...cross me") are plant operators. Scientific's nine ladies make most of their own decisions, are paid up to $125 a week, receiving whopping gifts during illnesses, whopping bonuses fair weather or foul (one $27.50-a-week girl executive paid an income tax on $3,600). Salary includes breakfast and lunch prepared by a German refugee cook in the kitchen of the company's five-bathroomed office. Free also are supplies of cosmetics and candy, a regular allowance for clothes and books...
...occupants were children. Hero of the group was a 21-year-old nurse, who stowed the children forward under a tarpaulin, continually massaged the chill from their bodies and told them wild adventure stories to keep them happy. Said one of the rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat, and one day each of us got one-eighth of a peach...
...father has arrived at last. And Oscar Serlin's production of the play based upon Clarence Day's entertaining book removes any slight suffered by the Hub in taking third place. Life With Father has but a whisper of a plot, but it is a roar of entertainment from breakfast table to breakfast table...
...Stayed for Breakfast," variation allegro on the Ninotchka theme, casts McIvyn Douglas as the party-liner seduced by the very un-proletarian charms of Loretta Young. Catching the flavor of a Paris that is no more, the film combines the wit of the French with the crackling pace of the American movies. But indeed ironic is the script's playful treatment of a political force which contributed so much to the downfall of that Paris which it eulogizes...