Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...
...Variety program: NBC's multi-sponsored Breakfast Club (replacing Chase & Sanborn's Bergen-McCarthy...
...series of scenes whose detail is almost eyewitness in effect: the President undressing for bed, tossing remarks over his shoulder to Berle in the next room; Hull and Welles in an early-morning call at the White House, the President propped against pillows, amid a litter of breakfast tray, morning papers, cables from abroad, wearing "a peculiar small cape of blue flannel trimmed and monogrammed with red braid, like an expensive summer horse-blanket...
...Gloriette Road No. 9. There he was greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated at a good bourgeois breakfast, roaring with laughter over some morsel of court gossip...
Next day, on the prospect that Denmark's exit from the world butter, bacon and fat market might bring business to U. S. packers, such stocks as Armour and Wilson came to life. Commodity prices went into a mild boom. But investment was cautious: Britain, by tightening its breakfast belt, drawing more heavily on the farmers of the Empire, may still be able to stay out of the U. S. bacon-and-egg market, save her foreign exchange for military materials. Meanwhile, Scandinavian dollar bonds hit the skids, with declines up to almost 50%. Washington issued an order, generally...