Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakfast consists of about two pounds of fruit, and caffe e latte (half-&-half coffee and milk); for lunch spaghetti, rarely meat and seldom wine, a huge salad, fruit for dessert; for dinner about the same things as for lunch, and fruit and milk before retiring...
...line safety . . . one of the outstanding achievements in the history of transportation. (Signed) Robert Hinckley, Chairman CAA. . . ." To 208 green-and-red-lit air liners then droning their way across the U. S.'s 35,900 miles of scheduled airways the message was relayed by radio. At breakfast after dawn passengers had copies, countersigned by their pilots, on their breakfast trays...
...miles around, pilgrims travel to the shores of Hang-chow's West Lake proudly to urinate upon the iron statue of a historic traitor named Chin Kuei. In honor of China's newest traitor, Wang Ching-wei, Chinese coolies call the fat-fried crullers they munch for breakfast yu cha-wei (i.e., "May Wei boil in oil in hell!"). Last week a new honor was bestowed on Traitor Wang. Chinese in Chungking started a chain letter respectfully dedicated to him. Each recipient of the letter was asked to kick back one dollar and pass copies of the letter...
...drank himself into a legend. At his parties he scorned champagne for alternate sips of vodka and hot water. One morning at breakfast a friend offered him sugar and milk to put into a cup which he had just filled from a teapot. "What!" exclaimed the Yuvaraja, "in whiskey...
...Russell was 1) irreligious, 2) immoral, 3) radical, 4) alien. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Catholic Daughters of America, the Lutheran Society, Inc., the Metropolitan Baptist Ministers Conference, all passed hot resolutions. Last week the Roman Catholic Church went on record. Before 6,000 policemen at a Communion breakfast, a speaker cried: "As [policemen] you have learned the full meaning of what is called a matrimonial triangle. . . . You have seen a corner of one of these triangles in a pool of blood. . . . Any professor guilty of teaching or writing ideas which will multiply the stages upon which these tragedies...