Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
Ultrafax will probably send few novels. But, said Sarnoff, it can duplicate movie films (such as newsreels) almost instantaneously at any distance. It can send whole newspapers. Perhaps it heralds the day when the newspaper reader, on his way to breakfast, will stop off in the living room to watch the "printing" of his morning paper...
When the crowd quieted finally, he began. He spoke for half an hour and there wasn't a harsh note in the whole speech. It had all the acid bits of a bowl of breakfast cereal. If the speech was at all typical of the whole tour, then Dewey has made the mildest the blandest campaign for major political office in America in this century...
...Having had jaundice recently and being troubled with some of the symptoms, I went down to the Hygiene Department for a laboratory test. The previous 25 times the test had been taken, I had been told not to eat breakfast before the blood sample was drawn. Food, it seems, spoils the test. The Hygiene Department said, "The way we do our tests, it won't make any difference...
...Kamen had just signed a seven-year renewal of a 16-year business association. As the salesman of exclusive manufacturing rights for Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, Kamen has not only planted their likenesses on children's watches, but on 2,000 other products, ranging from meat, breakfast foods and fruit juices to weather vanes, candy, cameras, toys, sweaters, ice cream packages and wallpaper. This year goods bearing the faces of Disney characters will bring in a retail gross of $100 million...