Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster House there is a felicitous absence of back-slapping and obnoxiously voluble breakfast conversation. No one is likely to tell you that you've got to get in there and give your all to help old Dunster win that old athletic trophy, though there are those who do care about athletic trophies. You are never embarrassed because you don't give a damn whether Dunster wins that old athletic trophy or not. It is a matter of considerable pride with us that there is no artificially stimulated House spirit of any sort whatsoever...
...Fall River, Mass. Some of the Borden household felt distinctly under the weather. Night before last both Mr. & Mrs. Borden had been violently sick; this morning Bridget, the maid-of-all-work, felt none too well. But they all got up as usual, went about their daily tasks. After breakfast 70-year-old Mr. Borden walked down town to do some business errands. Bridget, her first chores done, went up to her room to lie down. Mrs. Borden, 64 and fat, puffed up the front stairs to change the pillow slips in the spare room. That left only Stepdaughter Lizzie...
...plenty left at down to $94.50 each, their cheapest. Thomas Cook & Son have the stand of 4,000 seats near Hyde Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within five rninutes walk of the stand. American Express offer similar rates with emphasis on further travel on the cheaper Continent after the Coronation...
Modest though the Walgreen family may be among U. S. business dynasties, it is not unknown out of the drugstore business. In 1935 one family breakfast after another was spoiled for Drugman Walgreen because his niece, Lucille Norton, 18, prattled about what she was studying as a freshman at the University of Chicago (TIME, April 22, 1935). Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot...
...brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings in the Wadlow home are only a fraction of an inch above the boy's blond head. His bed measures nine feet. For breakfast he eats a dozen eggs...