Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realizing that getting the word from the horse's mouth is fairly impossible these days, that the financial situation could be better, and that the race for knowledge might be easier were it the "breakfast table education" of old, the former soldiers, sailors, and marines--without running into any Pollyannaisms consider themselves pretty fortunate. They're making the best of the present and are hopeful for the future. But dropping the past has been a little difficult, a stoutish ex-Wac confided. "I guess I've grown out of this khaki girdle...
Bostonians have loved every minute of it. One night a Herald engravers' plate was broken just before deadline, and the paper landed on 144,000 breakfast tables with no Dahl, but a printed box asking readers if he was missed. Four thousand readers promptly sent testy notes to the editor, saying yes. The omission has never been repeated, although Dahl seldom makes his 8:30 p.m. deadline with more than minutes to spare. When Dahl goes on vacation, the Herald exhumes his best sketches and reprints them. Rather than miss a day, it had him draw left-handed...
Responses Eleanor Roosevelt was asked the oldest living question in, newspaper interviews: what do you eat? The answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...
Creature of Habit. In Hopkinsville, Ky., America Lee complained to a court that her husband disappeared for five months, showed up early one morning, asked: "Is my breakfast ready...
...Although breakfast and dinner is served to Brunswick residents in a paneled basement dining room, taking meals at the hotel is not compulsory, and some couples prefer to eat on the way to and from the university. Efforts are made, however, to provide varied dinners and breakfasts, similar to those served at Harvard Houses, for $17.50 per week per couple. The Draytons and the Raymond W. Ralstons (he, a graduate student in Physics) feel "portions could be larger" at the hotel dining hall, while Harry Eckstein '46 (a government concentrator) and his wife, Vivian, say the food at the hotel...