Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby Biltmore, the invasion was on. At 10:30 the press was called in. For an hour, as photographers' flash bulbs flared, he answered questions, chain-smoking, gesturing and wriggling in familiar campaign fashion. The most important news for California: 1) that he was going to have breakfast with Governor Warren at the executive mansion in Sacramento; 2) that he was studying the California Presidential primary...
Assault on Strong Points. Next morning, Willkie was again seated at an important breakfast. This time at the Coconut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel, he was principal speaker at the opening of Los Angeles' War Chest drive. Again Willkie was an added starter, as the breakfast had been long planned. It was not a political speech, but it gave him an opportunity to address 1,000 influential Angelenos...
...work at 7:30 o'clock in the morning and leave at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon, getting in eight or nine hours of work. The Council recommended that the cooks be allowed to come to work later, since it took only one chef to prepare the breakfast...
...Philadelphia, H. Ellsworth Bennett, who attributed his good health to four hard-boiled eggs at breakfast, a glass of beer at 3 p.m. and 15 cigars a day, reached the age of 103, still collected the dollar-a-day injury award thrust on him by a railroad back...
...time from 0706 to 0715 may be devoted to discussion, for it is not until 0715 that we actually see what is called breakfast. Thus we eat at about the same time we did as Co. D, but form 12 minutes earlier to do it--thereby providing time for discussion...