Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst, McCormick and Rasputin. He sends little Harry Smith to Moscow with orders to write a book on ten reasons why the Russians want war. However, relates Hero Smith: "In Russia I became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired. On top of that, his pretty wife (played by Valentina Serova, Playwright Simonov's wife) prepares to leave him in a climactic scene...
...Hours of the Bells. The day, for José, begins at 5:30, when he climbs to the bell platform and sounds Dona María nine times. Then he has breakfast, slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour...
...have formulated sound programs. In Lowell plans are underway for the installation of sound-absorbent material in a dining hall crowded as it has never been and continuously filled with the clatter of knives and forks. Such an improvement--a genuine shot in the arm for "education over the breakfast table"--neatly meets the spirit of Provost Buck's gesture. Similarly in Leverett the projected overhauling of the Library lighting system may well stimulate use of House facilities for that study and intellectual camaraderie which the House Plan was founded to advance. What the masters must take care to avert...
Like nickel beers, breakfast table education, and free parking in Cambridge, the undergraduate tutorial system as it existed before the war is gone forever. With almost a year of operation under the faculty ruling of December 4, 1945 behind it, the present tutorial system is considered to be fully satisfactory by a majority of the departments of concentration...
...Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...