Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...
Last week Britons were considering another Summerskill attack on the British breakfast which might be less easily condoned. Oatmeal, she seemed to be saying, in flat contradiction of Charles Lamb and Dr. Johnson, was not only a substitute for the provocative pig, but an improvement...
...minute preparations, the Indians trooped into the mission plaza for a special movie program. Wrapped in striped blankets or sheepskin coats against the cold night air, they chuckled at a cartoon and slapstick comedy, tensely followed a hard-riding western. Next morning they were up before dawn over their breakfast campfires, but it was 10 o'clock before the celebration began...
There are many problems which yet remain to be overcome. The threat to peace of the American home posed by even a relatively small number of women trained in litigation is an imponderable which must weigh heavily on our minds. The picture of a breakfast table transformed into a court room, with husband and wife engaged in bitter legal debate over the eggcups, is almost too frightful to conceive. But, in spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word...
Mornings at 7. Young Henry gets up at 6 a.m. every morning. To save time, he shaves with an electric razor at the breakfast table, manages to read the paper at the same time. He is at his Des Moines office by 7, frequently returns to it at night. "No use of my going to a movie," he explains, "because I just think about the work...