Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcer: "I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen; I thought it was Emilie on top of the wash bowl. But all the quintuplets can talk at the bright age of three. Now the girls dress and troop out to breakfast...
Announcer: "See, they are eating a hearty breakfast. What's this, Annette refuses to drink all of her milk? Oh, Annette! Come now, that's a good girl...
Life seems to be full of little irritations that pursue a man wherever he goes. Whether it be that darned shoelace that breaks at just the wrong moment, as you are about to dash into breakfast before the doors close, or your roommate who has absconded with the morning paper, there always seems to be some petty thing that takes the joy out of life. The latest thorn in the side of tranquillity is the Union's refusal to let Freshmen take fruit out of the dining halls with them...
...lives a hermit sort of life. Getting up about 8, he has breakfast in his rooms, works until 12, then shaves, gets dressed, and goes out to some restaurant for lunch. When Mr. Cory is not here, and he is with him only three months or so every year, Santayana prefers to have lunch alone in his rooms. Thence for a stroll, after which he gets back to the Hotel about tea time, gets into his grey dressing gown and now and then receives a few visitors; though Cory tells me he's rather reluctant to see people. Dinner...
...office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard as he drives his staff, appearing frequently at his office at 5 a. m., having breakfast sent in, working through to suppertime. Prone to establish rigorous routine, he wears black ties year round, blue suits winters, white linen summers. Another personal idiosyncrasy: he hates suspenders, ridicules staffmen who wear them, calls them "sissy." Accustomed to bossing his own business, he champions local causes; alienated the advertising of a Nashville...