Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three of us sat down in a sacred park near by on the edge of a cement fence built around a pedestaled, steel-shelled Buddha which had suffered considerably from shell fragments-hits in the chest and behind the right ear. We opened a pack of K rations for breakfast...
...group has not yet adopted a name, collects no dues (each member pays for his own breakfast). It grew out of a discussion between Dr. Frederick George Niemand and District Attorney Edmund ("Pat") G. Brown. Dr. Niemand formerly belonged to the somewhat larger San Francisco Breakfast Group, but withdrew because "there were too many ministers around and the thing got formal." The Thursday group bars parsons. Reason: they might monopolize the discussion...
Barefooted, in white pajamas, Peter and John ran downstairs. Something was wrong. The living-room lights were burning. Their mother, who usually had breakfast ready at this hour, lay unconscious in a pool of blood beneath the piano, her skull fractured, her head battered with 23 wounds...
...inattentiveness is her lack of charm and physical appeal, Katherine undergoes a week's treatment at a milk farm. While she is away, David, her husband, becomes lonely, gets drunk and picks up a sleazy, drawling streetwalker whom he takes home for the night. The pair is discovered eating breakfast the next morning by Katherine, who returns earlier than expected. The remainder of the play concorns Katherine's efforts to incite her husband's jealousy and regain his love by inviting three ex-beaus to the house for the weekend...
...venture is the monthly Strength and Health, which claims a circulation of 110,000 and more than a million readers in all parts of the world. The magazine loses about $2,000 a month, a misfortune which Hoffman ascribes to the fact that it spurns all cigaret, liquor and breakfast-food advertising...