Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian lines up for an hour or more to get a haircut, another hour for a crude "austerity" meal at a restaurant (all meals limited to three courses, costs limited to 45? for breakfast, 55? for lunch, 72? for dinner). It takes six weeks to get shoes soled, five months to get a watch repaired. If an Australian is lucky, he gets four gallons of gasoline a month. Horse racing and all sports have been curtailed, and the gambling he loves is limited to patriotic lotteries and raffles for such luxuries as hams, sides of bacon, boxes of candy, sometimes...
...bright new future for the sweet potato was revealed in Alabama last week. At Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Lamar Minis Ware, professor of horticulture, demonstrated a surprising array of new concoctions he had produced from sweet potatoes-candy bars, taffy, cookies, breakfast foods, ice-cream flavoring, piecrust flour, milk shakes...
Other practically sure signs of neurosis: fear of not being able to draw a deep breath, burning in the abdomen, repeated belching, stomachaches after "emotional debauches," "distresses that come before breakfast...
...veteran: in the Middle Ages, when young & old drank quantities of yeasty beer daily, it was almost a staple of the European diet. The U.S. people eat 200,000,000 lb. of yeast a year, most of it in bread. Fleischmann has developed two varieties now widely used in breakfast foods and as vitamin pills...
Keeping Tom Waller away from bars is a difficult feat. His capacity for both food & drink is vast. A Waller breakfast may include six pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...