Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delta Sig chapter at U.C.L.A. extends an invitation to Mr. Morton ... to come to breakfast, lunch or dinner. No prior notice will be required; just drop in ... 40? for breakfast, 60? for lunch, and 85? for dinner. I defy him to match our prices and food . . . Ketchup is on the house...
...after five or six hours' sleep. (Back in 1940 his rising hour was 4:30, but, says Freeman, "the temptation always is to sneak up a few minutes earlier.") Every activity of his day is timed to the minute, often to the second. The time allotted for cooking breakfast (an egg, toast, Thermos coffee): two minutes, 40 seconds...
...morning an aide caught him in the act of taking a brisk, two-mile walk. Between breakfast and midnight that day, Harry Truman traveled 500 miles by train, 141 by automobile and bus, made 15 speeches in 15 different towns, changed his clothes eight times and met 250 politicians, labor leaders and civic dignitaries...
...North Carolina's tobacco belt last week, tongues were wagging with happiness and hope. At last, the state had an iron-jawed, copper-bellied football team that combed its hair with lightning and ate opposing tackles for breakfast. First crack out of the box, a fortnight ago, the ferocious University of North Carolina Tar Heels took Texas apart...
...outdated taboos and cliches that still keep news-writing stilting along behind the racy spoken word. But many still survive. The late, great Editor William Rockhill Nelson barred the word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...