Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Captain. The big events came next day. Harry Truman had told them to be at the Mayflower Hotel by 7 "and not at 7:10 or 7:15." Captain Harry was twelve minutes early. "Everyone here?" he snapped. "Where's the cook? Let's have breakfast." Grinning, a little selfconscious, they all sat down. Someone started to call him "Mr. President." Harry Truman commanded: "With this outfit I'm the captain, and that's an order...
...home, C.E. is up at 7 for a quick shower, breakfast and a chat with his wife. "It's about the only time I ever get to talk with Erwin," she says. When it comes to food, her husband is easily pleased; his favorites are chipped beef or salted peanuts, or both, any time of day. The Wilsons gave up most entertaining long ago; if C.E. showed up at functions at all, he was late, and loaded with work...
...Truman was up, Pressed, and out on the street before the sun, and before breakfast. Trailed by Secret Service men, he strode 20 blocks to the Union Station, met Bess and Margaret on the 7:50 B. &O. train from Independence. It was the beginning of an up-before-the-sun, busy-every-minute, presidential week. The President seemed to enjoy...
...something, is so tremendous that in no time at all he has the wife, the secretary, the daughter, and the maid all madly in love with him. But with the daughter it's real, and she gives up her bourgeois notions about truth. The final curtain finds her fixing breakfast for her "emperor of China...
Each weekday morning Louis St. Laurent was up at 8:30. After breakfast, Chauffeur Franços Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary...