Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desmond Powell's remembrance of a desert journey with the late Thomas Wolfe: "For one week I saw [him] consume a large steak each morning for breakfast, while lesser men sat around and ate crunchies and tweeties. ... He could recall the smell of a particular apple tree, the feel of a particular door...
...very taking and apparently therapeutic. To outsiders, however, Grand Lawsony was so grim and painful at times that it seemed more like Grand Guignol. After an opening cancan by Red Cross nurses, the show shifted to a foxhole where a one-armed G.I. dubbed Manny Tomville dreams of ordering "breakfast and a blonde to match," is rewarded with pirouetting amputees dressed as girls. Other scenes...
...Hawaiian Sea Frontier. There Nimitz gave him, and all his other subordinates, a daily object lesson in how to keep fit. By then Nimitz had moved his headquarters to a steel & concrete building, supposedly bombproof, overlooking the yard. Each morning he walked a mile or so before breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff and Deputy CinCPac. On a private pistol range...
...Kraut for breakfast every...
Correspondent Mary Welsh was laid up with grippe, spent only the following: breakfast of bread and hot water to mix with Nescafe - 70 francs plus 100 francs tip to waiter who was not supposed to bring anything to rooms. Lunch without wine -350 francs. Dinner with half-bottle of wine -500 francs. Firewood for room in the evening-150 francs plus 100 francs tip (no tip, no wood). Telephone calls, newspapers, aspirin and tips to maid who smoothed bed and boy who brought paper handkerchiefs - 350 francs. Total for the day -1620 francs...