Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's egg shortage was really serious, reported Pfc. William J. Rozak in a letter home. He could not get a one for breakfast. In Rhode Island his mother promptly bought a dozen, dipped them in paraffin, packed them in sawdust, mailed them across the Atlantic. Last week Egg-Lover Rozak gratefully acknowledged a dozen old-fashioned breakfasts: "Not a one was broken...
Last week Archbishop Spellman's chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre, contradicted his superior. Speaking at a Communion breakfast, Bishop Mclntyre denied there was any anti-Semitism worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...
...Iowa, he told 200 Iowa newspapermen that the differences in the Republican party were minor. Said he: "There has been some misconception of what is Republican opinion. All day, beginning at breakfast, I have talked with Republicans. I have not talked with any Republican who has any notion that the party should represent narrow nationalism, economic toryism, or abandonment of any social advances...
...alert for Nazi airborne counterattack. "At the most [a Home Guardsman] may waste a day; at the best he may kill a German before breakfast and be back at his factory on the evening shift...
...Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...