Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wait Till Next Time. The President was up at 6, and hungry as a mountain lion by the time the paunchy veterans of old "Dizzy D" Battery whooped into a Marion Hotel dining room for their annual breakfast-home-grown peaches in thick cream, hickory-smoked country ham with "redeye" gravy, hominy grits, bacon & eggs and hot biscuits. As usual, it was a time for loud laughing and hearty reminiscences of some of the boys who were gone. Captain Harry did some reminiscing himself: Remember poor old Sandifer? He came through many a prizefight on cigarettes and a bottle...
Harry Truman thanked the people who arranged the breakfast for placing "Steamboat" Johnson behind a pillar "where he couldn't see me." From behind the pillar Steamboat-Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. Monroe Johnson, an honorary member of Battery D-piped up: "If you think we did something for you in Washington last time [at the Battery D Inauguration-Day breakfast], just wait until the next time Captain Harry is President and see what we can do." Startled, Harry Truman laughed. "All those newsmen," he cautioned, "will think it's a plant...
...this strenuously and insists that he rises at 9 a.m. every morning. He admits, however, that he is haunted by the tragedy of Descartes, who contracted a fatal "early morning virus" while in the service of the Queen of Sweden. Berlin, therefore, stays inside with his telephone and his breakfast until the sun is safely...
Tomorrow is Friday the Thirteenth. All our delivery boys will have their fingers crossed and will therefore be unable to deliver the CRIMSON. The Breakfast Table Daily will be back on your doorstep Saturday, in accordance with long-standing reading period tradition...
...Breakfast-table education, every now and then, turns into breakfast-table poppycock and drivel. Recently, for instance, this newspaper printed a story about a student who wrote a C-plus hour examination in a Social Relations course in which he was not enrolled, had done no reading, and had been to no lectures. This accomplishment has brought on, along with the jokes, a lot of serious talk. But very little of this talk has come anywhere near the point brought out by the case...