Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell. For the party last week at her Grosse Point, Mich, estate, Mrs. Dillman brought Emile Petti's orchestra by plane from Manhattan, tied up the family yacht at the edge of the lawn (which drops into Lake St. Clair), served breakfast on solid gold plates, summoned photographers from all Detroit papers for a mid-afternoon snap-session. Same day dark-eyed Christine was named "Debutante of Today" by the national Debutante Register...
...breakfast time Rumania surged with a brief boundless relief. In the streets people of all classes, rich and poor, in uniforms, business suits and peasant costumes, fraternized, openly rejoicing. They felt as if something big had been accomplished. They rejoiced when Red Dog begged the new King's mother, Princess Helen (divorced and in exile), to return from Dresden. Actually the situation in Rumania remained close to political and strategic chaos...
...arrested as a spy (with nine other notable Britons in Tokyo), Jimmy was at breakfast in their seaside house, an hour's ride from the city. Two Japanese major generals and an interpreter came to get them. They took him to police headquarters, held him virtually incommunicado for three days. He was allowed to send his wife five guarded letters. She sent him pajamas, shirts and socks, soap, fruit, cigarets. None was ever delivered...
...morning last week 45 children in 45 Denver homes were too excited to eat breakfast. Up since dawn, they clutched schoolbooks, babbled to their parents. Soon, to each door in succession rolled a school bus. "Rusty," the bus driver, marched in, picked up a small passenger, carried him to a seat in the bus. His passengers were going to Denver's new School for Crippled Children. For many, it was their first school...
...Salem's days began with reveille at 7 a.m. and a raising of the U. S. flag in front of the tabernacle. A "morning watch" from 7:30 to 8 was followed by breakfast, children's classes at 9:30, preaching service at 11, lunch at noon, rest hour, afternoon service at 3, a two-and-a-half-hour recreation period. After supper there followed a final service at 8, taps...