Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Lael Tucker got up in a 400-franc Lancaster Hotel room, washed in cold water, breakfasted on three slices of bread and butter supplemented with honey brought from the south of France and cafe national (burnt barley)- cost of breakfast, 100 francs. Her car broke down half way to an appointment, so the final three-quarter -mile trip in a Velo taxi cost 300 francs. She took a member of the Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply...
Since correspondents should be thorough, we searched for the why & wherefore of this unseemly phenomenon. Perhaps, we said, these are no ordinary eggs. But tomorrow morning's breakfast egg produced by our unsuspecting cook was as disturbingly vertical. We shall not feel quite the same after that breakfast. We asked if hens are fed different food, perhaps BB shot, at this time of year? There was no evidence. Bizarre theories, having to do with the moon's pull, were frowned upon. Even Jimmy Wei, sprightly sage of the Ministry of Information, had no information. "Why try to explain...
...leaving food on its plate. Worried, the Quartermaster Corps ordered nutrition experts to investigate. Last week the experts reported that the WACs were doing their best, advised the Army to quit trying to founder its women with regular G.I. rations (potatoes for breakfast, double helpings...
...Brush after every meal, or at least after breakfast or lunch. Use two or three brushes, alternately...
Chicago's newspaper war last week was more than a breakfast-table brawl between the Sun and the Tribune. The Windy City's evening papers, freshly filled with new and noisy talent, were also blowing fit to crack their cheeks. A cyclonic Marine captain named Lou Ruppel had taken over Hearst's rowdy Herald-American, and storm signals were out all over town...