Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakfast with city department heads, he and his wife Eleanor were presented with a gift of round-trip tickets to Ireland, homeland of the mayor's grandparents. At the Civic Center Plaza, Hizzoner watched artists fashion Christmas sculptures out of ice. On to the dedication of a new gymnasium, where Daley deftly sank a basket...
...Publetter [Dec. 6] writer is a breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type. If your man had misspent his youth to better effect he would know that a fourflusher is not a cheater, as the Pub letter alleges, but a poor old bluffer trying to do his best in a stud game with four cards of one suit facing up (that's a four-flush) and nothing but dogmeat in the hole (what he needs for a legitimate flush is five cards of one suit...
...hands me a crystal of brown sugar from the breakfast tray...
...Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses of bran, which he claimed "does not irritate. It titillates." Kellogg and his family went on to make it big in cornflakes, while one of his ulcer patients, Charles Post, invented the coffee substitute Postum and a dry breakfast cereal he called Elijah's Manna. The name was later changed to Grape-Nuts...
...sitting the following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters, two portions of terrapin, two ducks, one sirloin steak plus vegetables, and a tray of French pastry (size unknown)? It is difficult to know if this was breakfast, lunch or supper, for Brady reputedly ate six times...