Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fireproof, steel & concrete interior which would stand on its own foundations inside the existing exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
Highlighting the competition debut will be free cool beer and an informal introduction to the ways and means of "Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily...
...great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair. His appetite is prodigious. He has occasionally been known to consume a dozen eggs at breakfast, polish off two steaks after a game...
...door to patients-who came so rarely that when one day a pregnant woman shyly appeared on the steps, little Innes gave her one shrewd glance and screeched joyously: "Arthur! Hooray! It's another baby!" To while away the hours, Arthur began to write stories. "This morning after Breakfast," runs a typical note in Innes' boyhood diary of those days, "Arthur went downstairs and began to write a story about a man with three eyes, while I was upstairs enventing a new waterworks that will send rokets over the moon in two minutes . . . then it was a quarter...
...captain closed the breakfast with a final order: "After 1 o'clock, or about 25 minutes thereafter, I don't give a damn what you do, but I want you to stay sober until then...