Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediate consequence was the liveliest riot of the year. First the inmates of the school, armed with knives, sticks, milk bottles and baseball bats, surrounded the main building to demand Dr. Smith's return. Three days later, enraged when the staff got eggs and they got hash for breakfast they revolted again, forced the staff to call police to restore order...
...DuBois & Hardy had decided to find out more about the body's mechanisms for mitigating heat and cold-that is, to establish the temperature zones in which various reactions occur. Every morning one or the other arrived at the laboratory at 9 o'clock, without breakfast, and undressed slowly to avoid dissipating heat because of muscular exertion. Then he entered a calorimeter, an insulated cabinet in which the temperature could be controlled over a range of 72° to 96°, and in which the amount of heat radiated by the naked body could be measured. Findings...
...case made a focal point of the "order and discipline" of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Chairman Kennedy last week revealed that his department had been deluged with complaints from travelers on U. S. ships. Samples: that stewards wake lone, pretty females with "Hi, Babe, get up . . . time for breakfast"; introduce male passengers to comely women aboard; address guests at breakfast, "Well, Buddy, what'll it be this morning"; even lay hands on young women in the corridors of ships. Of mutiny on the Algic, Chairman Kennedy remarked succintly, "I think it is scandalous...
...Breakfast for Two (RKO Radio) involves honored Tragedians Herbert Marshall and Barbara Stanwyck with pub-crawling, ventriloquism, loaded boxing gloves, custard pies and a butler named Butch (Eric Blore). They seem to enjoy the change...
...next day he awoke to feel the air hung with moisture. The sky seemed overweighted and ready to break. It reminded him of the time he had seen tears form in a woman's eyes. As he was drinking a glass of water at breakfast, the rains came. They not only came, they poured; first the grounds became wet, then drenched, then saturated. Leaves on the trees dripped sheepishly. People in the street turned up their coat collars, sprung umbrellas open, and began...