Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vivians, he does not mind being called "Mary." But he strenuously objected to a newspaper article which said he was "a scholarly type." He exploded: "I'm not a scholar - I'm an athlete." During the battle of Alamein he took a swim every morning before breakfast. He plays golf (left-handed), shoots, sails. In 1932 he married a girl who had raced sailboats against him for years. His wife is now as busy as he is; she looks after Empire troops on leave in London. They have one daughter, now eleven...
...fewer calories, more vitamins and minerals. Good foods for oldsters: mild cheeses, milk, lean meat, butter, scrambled eggs, macaroni, well-cooked vegetables, stewed fruits, raw bananas. Blacklisted: hard-boiled eggs, raw or smoked meat, raw vegetables, rich cheeses. Dr. Gumpert advises breakfast in bed, a hearty lunch, light supper...
Connie Mack had risen at his usual hour of 8:30, drunk his usual cup of warm water. His appetite was up to par. For breakfast he had oatmeal, toast and coffee; for lunch, chicken creole, apple pie and iced tea; for the anniversary banquet later on he had the works. He had just been with the Athletics to Chicago, and he expected to go on making all trips with his club. He also expected to keep up with the movies and prize fighting. He did not expect to go to bed before...
...coffee shop he may, if he is lucky, get the 55? a la carte breakfast in less than an hour's time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets...
...Nashville, Tenn. last week, young black and white students of both sexes were sitting down to breakfast together in an old red-brick house near Fisk University. All morning and most of the afternoon they were swinging pickaxes on a onetime plantation at the end of 18th Avenue North, west of Hootin' Annie and Billy Goat Hills. Members of the American Friends Service Committee's first interracial work camp in the South, they were converting a little patch of former slave soil into a recreation field for local...