Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field's new toned-down look for the morning Sun-Times has already kicked up an office gag: "Now we won't have rape for breakfast any more. Just for supper...
...first-floor suite at the Ritz last week, the day after he had seen his London doctor for the last time, Peter refused the breakfast proffered by his valet. "I am going up to see a friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...
Commons has no restriction on dress. Women are also admitted to all the meals, though few Princeton dates have ever been known to make breakfast which is served from seven to eight. In fact most Princeton finesse this meal...
...Marlborough House, Queen Mary's day begins promptly at 7:15 each morning. She dresses completely and punctiliously before breakfast alone in her dining room. At 9:30 she summons one of three noble Women of the Bedchamber who serve her in shifts of two weeks each, and together they go over the morning mail. "It is Queen Mary's inflexible rule," writes Wulff, "that every letter she receives shall be answered [in longhand] with the extremely rare exceptions of importunate letters from undesirables and occasional missives from unfortunates out of their senses...
...dining room, glittering with thousands of flecks of gold-colored plastic thread woven in chairs, sofa and carpet, the huge mirror forming the far wall parted; through it, from her hidden boudoir, stepped Viola Loewy, his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, to join him at breakfast...