Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vinnie (Dorothy Stickney) scoops up the prizes. Given to impulses and to oldfashioned, faintly apoplectic swearing, Father understands very little of the world, and nothing at all of his wife. He would certainly not understand, for example, why for stage reasons his family is shown, in the play, eating breakfast in the living room. "My God, Vinnie!" he would howl, "a gentleman eats breakfast in the dining room...
...When he appointed executives, he is reputed to have made them give him undated resignations. When he wanted to tell them something, he called them to him, whether he was in his office or at his Gull Lake estate. Last week, however, it appeared that the autocrat of the breakfast foods, 79, had picked his successor...
Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...
...last week Franklin Roosevelt, brooding over his bed-breakfast, decided to resurrect a long-laid ghost-that of the "White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal...
...Majesty, while busy with such grave matters of State, snatched time to give a birthday breakfast party at 8 a.m. to Crown Prince Mihai. Cake is sometimes eaten for breakfast in Rumania, and Mihai sat down to steaming coffee and a cake with 18 candles. He is thus of age and under the Rumanian Constitution automatically became a Senator, as do all crown princes of the Rumanian Royal Family on attaining their majority...