Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patterson might drop in on his airline terminal restaurant at Denver, Colo, some morning for breakfast. He will find: 1) door usually locked, 2) one disgruntled, rude waitress on duty, 3) food greasy, unpalatable . . . 4) sanitation at ceiling zero...
Vincent McHugh, formerly noted for prose (Sing Before Breakfast), became a notable poet overnight when veteran Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner got McHugh's publishers into a Manhattan court on an obscenity charge. The book under discussion: McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe...
...year ago, on Derby Day, he ran the first race of his career, and romped home nine lengths ahead. But only a few saw him do it. It was the first race of the day, run off at high noon, a time when most Derby fans are still at breakfast (annoying waitresses by calling them "honeychile" in phony Southern accents), being accosted by the "three-card monte" players near the stables, or having their first mint julep of the day at the Churchill Downs...
...knew as well as anyone that a slump is mostly mental. Every inning, when the Cards came off the field, he carefully put his first baseman's glove face down in the grass. Then he always touched the bag with his left foot. At breakfast, he made sure never to order the same thing he ate the morning before...
...Minute to 9. Breakfast is at 8:30. The Pope likes an Italian-style breakfast of coffee with milk and toast. Since the war, he has stopped eating butter. After breakfast, he sits on in his small private dining room, running rapidly through the morning papers. When the gold Swiss watch tells him it is 8:50, he rises from the table and goes to his private study. He makes a point of ringing the bell on his desk announcing that audiences are beginning, at exactly one minute to 9. Punctually on the hour, the first Cardinal, after genuflecting...