Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the ceremony, the wedding party listened to Negro spirituals, sung by a choir on the lawn. After the wedding breakfast, bride & groom set out for a honeymoon in a rented automobile...
...lives in a tiny Left-Bank hotel room littered with paints, clothes and cans of breakfast food. On a drawing board perched atop a suitcase on her bed, she paints the street scenes, bright with ladies in hoopskirts, which have made her locally famous. If one of her streets seems insufficiently cheerful, O'Brady adds a gaily colored balloon, an antique airplane or a fountain of fireworks overhead...
Humane Sunday. As a guide for advertising men, the Department of Commerce issued a pamphlet on "Special Days, Weeks and Months in 1948." The list of 247 "official" occasions includes Large 1 Size Week, National Donut Week, Honey for Breakfast Week, Perfect Shipping Month, Humane Sunday, Iced Tea Week, Sweetest Day. The pamphlet also includes eight "additional possible events," such as National Be Kind to Taxpayers Week and Better Floors Week...
...thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said it was a problem to get enough food for her husband's breakfast...
...taking into account the imperfections and failings of all human institutions, this commentator much prefers for his breakfast table reading the 1948 version of "The Official University Daily...