Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well-Preserved Ruin. After breakfast Don Carlos reads for a while; one day it may be a chapter from Don Quixote, the next a treatise on heraldry. Then he mounts one of his two horses, rides out to the Rancho del Charro, puts the horse through its paces. Eleven o'clock finds him downtown at the Banco de Mexico, in spats and morning coat, checking over his investments. Sometimes he growls: "The Revolution has stripped me!" (In 1910 he owned 4,000,000. acres, now has ten.) The atmosphere of ruin is somewhat dissipated when he adds: "Only...
...residents will center in the Harvard Union. Students will be able to pay for their meals either with a blanket fee for the 15-day period or with coupons for each meal. The latter plan will be the wiser, a Union official said, for these who expect to miss breakfast or intend to eat out fairly frequently. Prices for the meals will be: 55 cents for breakfast, 75 cents for lunch, and 95 cents for supper...
...group of Lowell House students and tutors have formed a breakfast discussion group to study the owl problem. They seek the preservation of the Yard bird, and threaten to "choke anyone who harms...
...days ago, in response to jibes, Lilienthal told friends that he had won a breakfast food contest for a pinto pony. When they threatened to have the story printed in the CRIMSON, however, he reneged. Although the winners had not been announced, the contest was over. And if he had won, Lilienthal claimed, he would have been notified by wire...
After that came prayers and reading; then breakfast alone and the day's work. When he had military visitors, he donned his plain, unmedaled khaki uniform; otherwise he wore a dark blue mandarin gown with a black jacket. To save coal, the grate in his study was left unlit most days, and the Gimo wore a skullcap to keep his head warm...