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Word: breakfasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock the colored mess attendant had turned on the wardroom lights and got the table ready for breakfast. The troops somnambulated in. A few had already made themselves ready, had melted pellets of green dye and smeared their faces. One of these had applied an imaginative swirl of green across his face, leaving an eerie eye and half a mouth. 'I want them to die laughing,' he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Come Out and Fight | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...hasn't hankered at one time or another for the "big office" complex?. The clamor of telephones and typewriters, the pulse beat of a full-fledged newspaper, are not always restricted to climax scenes in the movies. Harvard's only breakfast table paper stands ready to share some of its excitement Tuesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Service News Opens Beer Closet, Competition for Aspiring Students | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

...real-estate associate of Sir Harry Oakes, spent the night at Westbourne, in a room 18 feet away from the murder. No servants slept in. He testified that a storm awakened him, but that he knew nothing of the tragedy until he went to call his friend for breakfast. Police Captain Edward Sears stated that he saw Christie downtown in a station wagon after the time dinner guests Dulcibel Effie Heneage and Charles Hubbard left and Sir Harry and his friend retired. When Defense Counsel Godfrey Higgs pressed him on his movements that night and his actions after discovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: The Ruffled Sheet | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Like Hitler, Himmler is an undeviating vegetarian. He adores U.S. breakfast cereals, drinks herb tea instead of coffee, occasionally sips a glass of light wine. Unlike Hitler, he occasionally smokes cigars. Himmler shares Hitler's interest in what they call art and wants his whole SS to be art-conscious and to have good Nordic taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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